Lucknow. CBI has sought approval from the government to initiate investigation against 12 people including three IAS officers in the provident fund scam in UP Power Corporation Limited. Among the IAS officers against whom CBI has sought permission from the government for investigation, Sanjay Agarwal, Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare posted on central deputation, Alok Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of Power and Aparna U., Secretary, Medical and Health Department in the state. Are included. All three were posted in the UP Power Corporation during the period of the scam.
Sanjay Agrawal, a 1984 batch officer of IAS, was posted as the Chairman of Power Corporation and Principal Secretary and Additional Chief Secretary of Energy Department from the year 2013 to 2017. At the same time, Alok Kumar, a 1988 batch officer, was the Principal Secretary of the Energy Department besides being the Chairman of Power Corporation from May 2017 to November 2019. 2001 batch officer Aparna U. She was posted as Managing Director in Power Corporation. The CBI has also sought permission to initiate investigation against nine officials, including the accounts officer of Power Corporation.
This is the case : 4122.70 crores of General Provident Fund and Contributory Provident Fund of Electricians were invested unsecured in Dewan Housing Finance Company Limited (DHFCL). From March 2017 to December 2018, Rs 2631.20 crore of GPF and Rs 1491.50 crore of UPPCL CPF (Contributory Provident Fund) were deposited in DHFCL by UP State Sector Power Employees Trust. Out of this, only Rs 1854.80 crore has been recovered. 2267.90 crores of electricity workers were stuck after the Mumbai High Court withheld the payment of DHFCL.
The three IAS officers have already been interrogated: CBI had interrogated Alok Kumar and Aparna U for several hours on 9 May 2020 in this case. EOW and CBI have also questioned Sanjay Agarwal. It is believed that after getting evidence against the three during the investigation, CBI has sought permission to start investigation against them on the basis of that.
First FIR was registered in Hazratganj Kotwali: The first FIR in the scam was lodged on November 2, 2019 in Hazratganj Kotwali on behalf of IM Kaushal, secretary of UP State Sector Power Employees Trust. The CBI had registered a case in this case four months later, whereas earlier the EOW was probing the case. EOW arrested 17 people including the then Trust Secretary PK Gupta and his son Abhinav Gupta, then Director Finance Sudhanshu Dwivedi and then MD Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam AP Mishra, who were named in the case and sent to jail. The CBI had registered a case on March 6 and took the investigation into its own hands. The Enforcement Directorate is also investigating the matter by registering a case under money laundering in the PF scam in December 2019.
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