The Special Investigation Team of the Uttarakhand Police filed second charge sheet, containing six names linked with the Rs 300…
National Highway 74
The Special Investigation Team of the Uttarakhand Police filed second charge sheet, containing six names linked with the Rs 300 Crore National Highway-74 scam, at a district court in Nainital on Thursday.
The scam was executed jointly by state government staff, NH staff and farmers by showing agriculture land as commercial- to obtain high compensation. Over one dozen more farmers are likely to figure in the scandal as probe is underway at places like Gadarpur, Bajpur, Ruderpur and Kiccha.
Eighteen attest have been made so far in the NH-74 scam- including PCS officers, Chakbandi officers, revenue department staff and farmers. The scam took place during the earlier Congress government rule.
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The fresh charge sheet included names of six expelled state government staff- Anil Shukla, Nandan Singh, Mohan Singh, Amar Singh, Ganesh Prasad and Sant Ram featured in the document submitted to the district court in Nainital.
The Special Investigation Team filed the first charge sheet on 31 January 2018. The first list had 12 names and the supplementary list consists of six names.
The investigation is technically related to revenue department and the SIT team had to toil hard to understand the document and take help of experts to fix the allegation. The team had to take help of the revenue department staff for understanding the technical language of the documents.
The National Highway-74 scam is hot in Uttarakhand as many beneficiary farmers provided election funds to Congress during the state assembly election. Immediately after coming to power the BJP recommended a CBI probe into the Rs 300 Crore scam.
The recommendation was made in March last year. Despite passing of a year, India’s top investigating agency is yet to take up the case. Congress constantly raise the CBI probe issue and accuse catching small fishes and not touching the big fishes involved in the scandal.
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