Ludhiana: The Vigilance Bureau has nominated 4 extra individuals, together with a retired district meals and provides controller and suspended Punjab State Civil Supplies Corporation district supervisor, within the 2,000 crore foodgrain transportation rip-off on Monday.

Those nominated within the FIR are retired district meals and provides controller (DFSC) Surinder Kumar Beri, Punjab State Civil Supplies Corporation (PUNSUP) district supervisor Jagandeep Dhillon (now suspended) and two fee brokers (arthiyas) Anil Jain and Mahavir Bansal.

Senior superintendent of police (SSP, vigilance) Ludhiana vary Ravinder Pal Singh Sandhu stated throughout the interrogation it was discovered that the accused have been concerned in irregularities associated to tenders, transportation and storage of foodgrains and bogus billing. The accused are but to be arrested.

One of the accused Krishan Lal Dhoti Wala, a fee agent, who was arrested on September 15, was produced earlier than court docket on Monday. The court docket prolonged his police remand by one other day. Dhoti Wala was the third accused contractor to be arrested within the case after Telu Ram and former Congress minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu.

Ludhiana vary vigilance senior superintendent of police Ravinder Pal Singh Sandhu stated throughout the probe it got here out that Lal used to obtain foodgrains from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar at low-cost charges and used to promote it at increased charges in Punjab. He was additionally allegedly concerned in bogus billing.

LDP scheme rip-off: 4 accused despatched to 14-day judicial remand

An area court docket despatched 4 accused within the Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT) regionally displaced individuals’ (LDP) scheme rip-off to a 14-day judicial remand on Monday.

The 4 accused are Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT) govt engineer Jasdev Singh, LIT junior engineer (JE) Inderjeet Singh and municipal company JE Mandeep Singh and one Kamaldeep Singh of Model Town Extension. They had been arrested on September 16.

The vigilance officers informed the court docket that they’re but to get better paperwork relating to the allotment of residential plots to unauthorized individuals beneath the LDP scheme. Some accused events, together with former LIT chairperson Raman Balasubramaniam, are but to be arrested.

A case was registered beneath Sections 7, 7A, 8, 12 and 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act and beneath Sections 409 (felony breach of belief), 420 (dishonest), 467 (forgery of beneficial safety), 471 ( utilizing a cast doc or report as real) and 120-B (felony conspiracy)of the Indian Penal Code was registered in opposition to the accused on July 28.