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Patna,(BiharTimes): Vigilance Investigation Bureau on Saturday submitted a chargesheet in the special vigilance court against IAS officer and former Commissioner of Patna Municipal Corporation, K Senthil Kumar, former additional commissioner of Patna Municipal Corporation Baidyanath Das and Brahmadev Dubey, then executive engineer of the PMC. They have been charged with accruing loss of about Rs 8.77 crore to the state exchequer. |
According to Vigilance sources the matter was related to PMC. Irregularities were detected in the construction of apartments in the city, which Senthil Kumar allegedly ignored. This included construction of apartments beyond the map approved. Some construction companies got the maps passed for four floors only but constructed even fifth and sixth floors. Senthil did not impose extra charges on the companies concerned, causing a loss of about Rs seven crore to PMC.
The then PMC Commissioner also reduced the rates for putting up advertisement hoardings in the city causing a loss of about Rs two crore to PMC. In the name of e-governance, he also gave permission for purchase of equipment, which were not required.
Senthil Kumar, a 1996-batch IAS officer, had disappeared without information when a vigilance team had reached PMC for investigation in Feb 2010, only to return again after a few days. However, he was suspended one and a half years later on June 30, 2011.
Das has retired from service, while Dubey has been suspended.
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