LAGATAR24 NETWORK
Ranchi, Aug. 29: The Jharkhand High Court today asked the State government (ACB) to hand over the documents related to the MNREGA scam involving Rs 28 crore of the state exchequer in Chaibasa to the Enforcement Directorate.
A division bench headed by Chief Justice Sanjaya Kumar Mishra passed the order after hearing a PIL filed by a social worker, Matloob Imam.
The high court while giving the order directed the State government to handover the copies of FIRs/chargesheets in the matter to the central probe agency with a further direction to the ED to complete the investigation within a month.
As many as 14 FIRs had been registered since 2008 to 2011 in Chaibasa in the scam and the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the state had filed chargesheets in them.
The ED, which has already taken up the case, had earlier informed the court that the ACB was not sharing the copies of chargesheets with it.
The now next hearing in the case will take place on September 31.
Alam had demanded a CBI probe into the MNREGA scam that took place in between 2008 to 2011 in Chaibasa when K Srinivasan was deputy commissioner.
According to him, the scam involves Rs 28 crore. He submitted through his lawyer Rajiv Kumar that as many as 14 FIRs were registered in this scam and later the ACB also probed the matter registering preliminary enquiry but no action was taken in the matter.
This is the second time a PIL in the matter has surfaced. Earlier, the court had disposed of the petition in 2013. In 2021, Alam filed it again demanding a CBI probe in the matter.
