SCAM/CORRUPTION – 2010 - Indian Social Institute

een involved in a number of these things and that is what tends to happen. "It's very hard for me to
comment on all this stuff about corruption and whether building certificates have been given and all the
rest of it because I just don't know and I think it's just an internal matter anyway." The event involving 71
nations is already the costliest Commonwealth Games in history, with an infrastructure and organising
budget of $2 billion, although unofficial estimates say the cost will be at least triple. Monsoon rain in Delhi
has also hampered the completion of Games infrastructure. "Our view is that it's going to be tight but they
will meet the deadline," Crosswhite said.(The Times of India, 2/8/2010)
Thar Express drivers, TTEs accused of smuggling
JAIPUR: A letter from one R N Dudi to Government Railway Police (GRP) in Munabao alleging
involvement of two drivers and two train ticket examiners (TTEs) of Thar Express in smuggling, has left
the railway officials red-faced. Security agencies and local police have started investigations. Incidents of
smuggling in counterfeit currency notes and drug-trafficking on-board Karachi-Jodhpur Thar Express
have been bothering security officials since the train was started. But it is probably for the first time that
allegations have been leveled against the train staff. GRP SP S N Khinchi received the letter on Friday
which claimed that train drivers M D Charan and Virendra Singh and TTEs Jugal Kishore and Jagdish are
hand-in-glove with Pakistani smugglers bringing fake currency notes and narcotic materials into India.
Dudi wrote the TTEs take consignments from the Pak travellers and hide it in the engine bogey with the
consent of the drivers and later hand it back to them. The complainant alleged as the security officials
don't check the engine bogey and the railway staff, the smuggling has been going on without anybody
noticing. Shocked by the allegations, railway and security officials have ordered inquiry into the matter. At
the same time, Barmer and Jaisalmer police have also started investigation. GRP's DySP Satya Mani
Tiwari told TOI that he was probing the allegations. He said it would be too early to comment as the
allegations are yet to be ascertained. He also said that police would interrogate the railway staff named in
the letter as well as the complainant. On the issue of security, he claimed that checking is conducted on
every trip and even the engine is checked manually. BSF DIG of Rajasthan Frontier R C Dhyani said the
possibility of smuggling in nexus with railway staff could not be ruled out. The issue was discussed at a
meeting of lead intelligence agencies and directives have been issued to officials concerned to step up
checking and alertness.(Times of India, 2/8/2010)
Siachen scam: Army officers replaced oil with water
NEW DELHI: In an embarrassment to the Army, five personnel including a Brigadier have been
chargesheeted by Jammu and Kashmir Police for allegedly replacing kerosene and diesel in tankers
meant for troops in Siachen with water. The chargesheet, filed before Chief Judicial Magistrate, Leh,
earlier this week, has named Brigadier Sukhbir Singh, the then Deputy Director Supply and Transport, Lt
Col D K Chaturvedi, the then Officer-in-Command of 406 Army Supply Corps, Captain Parveen Rawat
(406 ASC), Subedars Major Sunder Singh and R K Nigam. The chargesheet has once again put the Lehbased
14 Corps in an awkward situation as it is facing heat on the issue of alleged pilferage of clothing
and special rations meant for troops posted in Siachen. Recently, a Court of Inquiry was initiated against
an officer of Major General rank from the same command for alleged sexual harassment. Others
chargesheeted include Terminal Manager of Indian Oil Corporation (Ambala) Sunil Kumar, owner of a
petrol pump in Zakhaira (Punjab) Bimal Gulati, alleged conduit Baljeet Singh alias Bittu and eight drivers,
sources in the state Home department said. According to the chargesheet, Army officials allegedly in
connivance with the IOC officials were replacing kerosene oil and diesel from the tankers with water,
which upon its arrival in Leh, was unloaded in barren mountains. Taking cognizance of the chargesheet,
the court asked all the accused to be present on April four.(The Times of India, 4/8/2010)
Army's Siachen gear up for sale
NEW DELHI: A pilferage scam running into crores of rupees has come to light in the Army's strategic Leh
Corps in Jammu and Kashmir with police detecting clothing and rations meant for troops deployed on the
Saichen glacier being sold in local markets. Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered 11 FIRs since
July after finding food packets and other equipment meant for Siachen being sold in the open market but
the Army has refused to cooperate in the probe, sources said. Police have so far arrested 31 people,
including shopkeepers, in various areas in northern Kashmir. A few of them have made confessional
statements before magistrates, during which they named senior Army officers who allegedly supplied the
materials to them, sources said. Armed with the confessional statements, police approached the Lehbased
14 Corps for questioning certain officers but the Army refused to cooperate, they said. The matter
has now been taken up by the state government with the Army's top brass as local commanders are
refusing to entertain police's request, the sources said. What surprised police was the seizure of high