CBI Court Sentences DRDA Chief Finance & Accounts Officer in SGRY Scam Involving ₹1 Crore Loss after 17 Years
The investigation revealed that the loss was caused through cheating, forgery, use of forged documents as genuine, and deliberate destruction or disappearance of official records to hide the fraud.
The Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) has court in Lucknow sentenced the accused to five years of rigorous imprisonment for causing a loss of over ₹1 crore to the government exchequer related to Sampurna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) including Chief Finance & Accounts Officer of the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA).
The convicted persons are Satyendra Singh Gangwar, who was then the Chief Finance & Accounts Officer of the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), Ballia; Ashok Kumar Upadhyay, then Junior Accounts Clerk, DRDA Ballia; and Raghunath Yadav, a private individual. Along with imprisonment, the court also imposed a total fine of ₹77,000 on the accused.
According to the CBI, the case was registered on October 31, 2008, after the agency took over an earlier case relating to large-scale irregularities in the implementation of the SGRY scheme in Ballia district, Uttar Pradesh.
It was alleged that the accused, along with others, caused wrongful loss to the government amounting to ₹75.12 lakh in cash and misappropriated food grains worth ₹31.10 lakh.
The investigation revealed that the loss was caused through cheating, forgery, use of forged documents as genuine, and deliberate destruction or disappearance of official records to hide the fraud. The accused were also found to have gained personally from these illegal acts.
After completing the investigation, the CBI filed a chargesheet on June 30, 2010, against the three accused. Following a detailed trial, the court found them guilty and awarded the sentence, bringing the case to an end after more than 17 years.
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