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This is an archive article published on November 30, 2011

Lokayukta gets complaint against top govt officers

Lokayukta N K Mehrotra has received a complaint against Principal Secretary Kunwar Fateh Bahadur and RN Singh,ADG ,alleging they scuttled two investigations in Economic Offences Wing to help some persons accused of financial fraud.

Lokayukta N K Mehrotra has received a complaint against Principal Secretary(Home) Kunwar Fateh Bahadur and RN Singh,ADG (Economic Offences Wing),alleging they scuttled two investigations in Economic Offences Wing to help some persons accused of financial fraud.

The complaint has been lodged by Nutan Thakur,a social activist and wife of IPS officer Amitabh Thakur who had recently filed a writ petition at Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court demanding a high-level inquiry into harassment by Principal Secretary (Home) and Vijay Singh,Secretary to the Chief Minister.

According to the complainant,in one of the cases related with Ms Sri Acid Company Limited,Amroha,the directors of the company had allegedly swindled a subsidy of Rs 32.61 lakh,while in the other the directors of Ms Amroha Fin Company had allegedly cheated share-holders to the tune of around Rs 45.99 lakh.

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The complaint said the matter was investigated by EOW(Meerut sector) who sent a report dated 24 December 2009 to the Home Department,Uttar Pradesh.

The report,the complainant alleged,found the owners of the company accused but R N Singh,on this own,changed the report without any substantial basis and declared them innocent.

The Home Department,under Fateh Bahadur,accepted this report,ignoring the previous report.

The other case was regarding Ms Amroha Tradefin which was alleged to have cheated investors of crores of rupees. According to complaint,all four directors of the company were named as accused and EOW (Meerut) investigated this case and sent his report dated 21 August 2009.

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A charge sheet under section 406/420 IPC was recommended against them but the accused approached Fateh Bahadur who asked for reinvestigation of the matter. When EOW did not change its stand,then R N Singh as ADG,EOW got the case transferred to EOW headquarters and got the case closed. Kunwar Fateh Bahadur could not be contacted despite several attempts while RN Singh declined to comment.

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