New Delhi: The Delhi government on Monday said it had asked the CBI in October, 2010, itself to investigate the large scale corruption in the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB), even as it shifted blame for the fraud on the erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).
Reacting to TOI’s report “Rs 20 crore meant for night shelters in Delhi siphoned off”, the government also claimed that it had suspended 10 officials involved in the embezzlement of funds. The TOI report had spoken about how over two decades the money earmarked for sheltering the poor and other assistance programmes was siphoned off, and when it was detected in September, 2010, there was a concerted bid to cover it up.
The report had also said that Delhi government’s Anti Corruption Branch had taken over the case, pre-empting the CBI which was getting ready in 2010 to start investigations.
The Delhi government’s statement did not explain why the CBI did not finally probe the fraud, and what happened to the investigations by its own ACB. The statement also did not explain if they have found anybody guilty and punished them for stealing money meant for night shelters.
“The Delhi government on Monday stated that it had addressed a communication to the Director, CBI, as early as 29th October, 2010, requesting to investigate a matter of embezzlement of cash detected while going through the records after taking over the Slum & JJ Department of MCD by the city government to convert it into the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB),” the statement said.
The city government claimed that DUSIB “was constituted to streamline the functioning of the activities of Slum & JJ Department under MCD as it was marred with rampant corruption and nothing moved during the period when controlled by the MCD.”
The Congress-controlled state government said the “condition of Slums & JJ colonies was becoming bad to worse and the government was flooded with large number of complaints from the residents.”
Once DUSIB was constituted, the city government “started looking into the records and decided to approach the Delhi police to seek proper investigation by an Assistant Director in connivance with other staff members.”
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Reacting to TOI’s report “Rs 20 crore meant for night shelters in Delhi siphoned off”, the government also claimed that it had suspended 10 officials involved in the embezzlement of funds. The TOI report had spoken about how over two decades the money earmarked for sheltering the poor and other assistance programmes was siphoned off, and when it was detected in September, 2010, there was a concerted bid to cover it up.
The report had also said that Delhi government’s Anti Corruption Branch had taken over the case, pre-empting the CBI which was getting ready in 2010 to start investigations.
The Delhi government’s statement did not explain why the CBI did not finally probe the fraud, and what happened to the investigations by its own ACB. The statement also did not explain if they have found anybody guilty and punished them for stealing money meant for night shelters.
“The Delhi government on Monday stated that it had addressed a communication to the Director, CBI, as early as 29th October, 2010, requesting to investigate a matter of embezzlement of cash detected while going through the records after taking over the Slum & JJ Department of MCD by the city government to convert it into the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB),” the statement said.
The city government claimed that DUSIB “was constituted to streamline the functioning of the activities of Slum & JJ Department under MCD as it was marred with rampant corruption and nothing moved during the period when controlled by the MCD.”
The Congress-controlled state government said the “condition of Slums & JJ colonies was becoming bad to worse and the government was flooded with large number of complaints from the residents.”
Once DUSIB was constituted, the city government “started looking into the records and decided to approach the Delhi police to seek proper investigation by an Assistant Director in connivance with other staff members.”
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