Assistant director (AD) food, civil supplies and consumeraffairs (FCS&CA) department Rajouri has ordered an inquiry into an allegedration scam that surfaced in Deri Ralyote village of Manjakote tehsil inRajouri district.
Sources told Greater Kashmir that AD Rajouri, Mukhtar Ahmedhas ordered inquiry into allegations of bungling of subsidized ration by threemembers of a family (all ration and kerosene oil dealers), Mohammad Akram, hisson Wasim Akram and latter’s wife Ruksana Koser.
They said that Mohammad Akram would run a ration store inthe Deri Ralyote locality, but in the erstwhile PDP-BJP dispensation, hemanaged to adjust his son and daughter-in-law in the FCS&CA departmentusing his political influence.
After their appointment, the trio, according to sources,started withdrawing separate subsidized ration from TSO office Manjakote usingfake lists of the beneficiaries of Deri Ralyote village.
Later, on the basis of suspicion, sources said that somepeople of the village approached SHO Manjakote to probe the misuse of thegovernment ration by the trio.
“But, the trio provided fake lists to the police officer andsomehow managed to avoid police action,” they said, adding that followed bythis, the locals approached AD FCS&CA to investigate the bungling ofration.
On the basis of complaints received from the locals, sourcessaid the AD concerned asked the accused ration dealers to submit the record forscrutiny but they didn’t turn up for submission of record and even kept theirstores locked.
The AD, Mukhtar Ahmed told Greater Kashmir, “After primafacie it was established that the two months’ government ration was not beendistributed among the beneficiaries, an inquiry team was constituted to probeinto the matter.
When the team started inspection drive, the accused dealersdidn’t cooperate, thus created suspicion.”
“Accordingly, all the three ration dealers of the familywere placed under suspension,” the AD said, adding that further investigationhas been taken up.