BWSSB suspends 13 officials on graft charge | Bengaluru

The Bangalore Water Provide and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) suspended 13 officers on Wednesday for alleged misappropriation of ₹7 crore, paid by the residents within the type of water payments, folks within the know of the matter stated on Thursday.

“Throughout the pandemic, the officers and employees from Navodaya Service Centre, a consultancy that gives manpower to the BWSSB, used the water fees, collected in money, and didn’t submit the funds to the BWSSB,” an official stated, searching for anonymity.

Nonetheless, the accused had “created faux paperwork to indicate that the payments had been deposited within the financial institution”, the official added. The problem got here to the sunshine through the inner audit of the water board held in December, the place it was discovered that the water payments collected within the type of money, demand draft and cheque was not deposited to the financial institution.

These staff suspended have been recognized as Bharath Kumar G S, R Srinivas, Vishwanath Ok, C Somashekar, B Nagendra, C Nagaraju, Sachin Patel, Ramappa Madivalara, Sneha V, Bhimashankar, Geeta M, N Rudresh and S Yogesh, an official from BWSSB stated.

The board had constituted three particular audit committees to scrutinize if the quantity collected through water payments was credited to the BWSSB account and to comprehensively “determine the quantity misused by the outsourced staff”. Based mostly on this an inner audit report was submitted, and the staff chargeable for embezzlement had been suspended with speedy impact.

Final month, the Bommanahalli police had arrested 9 folks, together with a income supervisor on the BWSSB, and eight others, together with meter readers and staff of outsourcing agency Navodaya Service Centre within the water meter rip-off.

The police on December 23 had arrested Nagaveni, a income supervisor on the BWSSB, based mostly on proof that she had given the login ID and password of the ‘SAJALA’ web site to an company employees and assisted within the fraud, stated an official.

Throughout the probe, it was discovered that they created receipts and made false entries that claimed the funds had been transferred to the division’s checking account. It was suspected that many extra staff of the board had been concerned within the rip-off and additional investigation is on, stated the police.