Rajasthan JJM Scam: Jal Jeevan Mission rip-off is being mentioned in Rajasthan for a very long time. In this case the place ED is investigating from its personal aspect. The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) can also be investigating. Meanwhile, ACB has registered an FIR in opposition to 22 accused together with former minister Mahesh Joshi within the Jal Jeevan Mission rip-off case. In the case registered by ACB, a case of Rs 979.45 crore rip-off has been registered. PHED division officers, contractors and corporations are additionally included among the many accused.
Rs 15 lakh for pretend certificates
ACB investigation has revealed that the contractors who received the tender on pretend work expertise had additionally created many pretend e-mail IDs. Through this e-mail he used to justify his pretend work expertise. Mahesh Mittal of Ganpati Tubewell and Padmchand Jain of Shyam Tubewell had obtained all these pretend certificates made out of Mukesh Pathak. For this he had taken Rs 15 lakh from each.
Fake e-mail and certificates for tender
To make all these emails look real, Devendra Singh, who taken care of the work of filling the tenders of the businesses, had additionally obtained a website ID and e-mail ID ready from a software program engineer. The accused used to submit pretend certificates of IRCON firm. Therefore, he obtained the area ID of ircon.kukatpally@ircon.org.in and e-mail ID of irconmdwp@gmail.com created from software program engineer Rakshit Mathur. Apart from this, extra e-mail IDs had been created. Through which division officers had been communicated with and improper data was given. The division officers, even near the minister, had been concerned on this recreation. On the idea of its investigation, ED has additionally made minister Mahesh Joshi an accused. On the identical foundation, ACB has registered an FIR in opposition to Minister Mahesh Joshi.
What was the position of Minister Mahesh Joshi
ED collected proof in opposition to Mahesh Joshi in its investigation. On this foundation, ED requested ACB to register a case in opposition to him. As quickly as ACB obtained this letter on June 4, 2024, motion was initiated. ED has mentioned in its investigation that Sanjay Badha is near Mahesh Joshi. And he has an enormous position on this rip-off. It is recorded within the ED report that Sanjay used to take care of all of the work associated to switch posting and tender on the behest of Minister Mahesh Joshi. Vishal Saxena has mentioned in his assertion that he as soon as met Mahesh Joshi and requested him to maintain his posting in Jaipur solely. Then Mahesh Joshi informed Vishal that such work was dealt with by Sanjay and Sanjay Agarwal, an govt engineer of the division, takes care of it. Therefore he ought to meet each of them. After this, Vishal was requested to arrange a optimistic verification report on the pretend certificates of Ganpati tube effectively. According to ED, many different personnel have additionally confirmed that Sanjay was near Mahesh Joshi and he was concerned in transfers, postings and even tenders associated to the division. The investigation has additionally revealed that bribes had been taken from many contractors. He used to do all this work for Minister Mahesh Joshi.
Funds continued to be launched even after complaints
It has grow to be clear within the investigation of ED that regardless of the allegations of giving pretend certificates to each the businesses, funds continued to be launched to them. Investigation has revealed that after receiving the authorized discover, the division paid Rs 123.66 crore to Ganpati Tubewell and Rs 23 crore 61 lakh to Shyam Tubewell. All these funds had been made after receiving the authorized discover on March 16. After receiving the criticism in regards to the matter, the division requested Additional CE of Jaipur II, Ramesh Chandra Meena to research it. Meena gave the duty to govt engineer Vishal Saxena to research this. Whereas Vishal Saxena, many of those tenders had been exterior the scope of Vishal’s work.
Earlier, Vishal himself had declared the work expertise certificates of Ganpati Tubewell to be right. Later he confessed that he was requested to take action by ACS Subodh Aggarwal and Ramesh Meena. It was clear within the criticism that there’s a distinction between the e-mail registered on the work expertise certificates introduced by these corporations and the e-mail ID registered within the turnover certificates. The division officers didn’t take any motion even on these complaints.
Ganpati Tubewell Company participated in 68 tenders
Ganpati Tubewell Company used 5 pretend work expertise certificates of IRCON International. Ganpati Tubewell Company participated in 68 tenders of PHED division. Mahesh Mittal took work orders value Rs 859.2 crore in 31 tenders within the type of L One within the title of his firm. Whereas Padmachand Jain used 2 pretend work expertise certificates of IRCON via his firm Shyam Tubewell. Shyam Tubewell obtained work orders value Rs 120 crore as L1 in 73 tenders.
On this whole matter, Minister Mahesh Joshi has mentioned that the minister has no position within the allocation of tenders. The company ought to examine the pretend certificates. Whenever I’m known as for questioning, I’ll go. Even so, ED leaves no stone unturned in its investigation.
