Shivpuri: India’s hub of corruption turns out to be Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh. The embezzlement case also arises from the PWD following the scams in Cooperative Bank, Ur River Project and Sambal Yojana. There’s an FIR against 15 persons, including former executive Engineers, PWD Executive Engineer D.S. Yadav, for ₹7 crore fraud reported. He was previously given the national award for performing his duty well in Shivpuri and Gwalior. It came to light after a letter by the Commissioner of Treasury and Accounts, Madhya Pradesh.
Reports say out of these 7 crore, between 2018 and 2023, ₹7 crore were transferred from the treasury to outsourced employees’ accounts, including Gorab Srivastava. Among its officials during this period were executive engineers posted in Shivpuri. Notably, since the scam was broken, D.S. Yadav, from his office, is no longer responding to calls. A case has been filed under the charges of fraud and corruption by the City Kotwali Police. Of the five accused executive engineers, four are retired. Also mentioned in the FIR are two divisional accountants and several of its employees who received illicit funds.
This is one of a string of major scams that have taken place in Shivpuri in recent years. The ₹100 crore Cooperative Bank scam, the Ur River Project compensation fraud and the Sambal Yojana case, in which many living persons were declared dead to swindle money, have already discredited the district. The PWD scam is just another in a series of exposures of officials colluding with conmen who outsourced work to computer operators, sometimes to act as fronts for them. Authorities have pledged an intense crackdown on those involved in all these scams, and investigations into these scams are still ongoing.
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