‘Asst Registrar trying to save all three accused’

Panchkula, June 4

Former president of the New Bankers Cooperative Thrift and Credit Society, Panchkula, has alleged that the Assistant Registrar, Co-operative Societies, Haryana, was trying to save the accused in a 2012 embezzlement case.

In his complaint to the Lokayukta, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and State Cooperative Minister Banwari Lal, Sajeev Sharma demanded that the new inquiry report prepared by Assistant Registrar be rejected. He sought revocation of the RCS order and appointment of an administrator to review the recent decision.

Sajeev Sharma alleged that the new inquiry report tried to save Kamaldeep Singh, Rakesh Sharma and Kashmir Singh who were arrested in the case earlier.

The Co-operative Societies had received a complaint about the fudging of New Banker Thrift and Credit Society records after which a case was registered in 2012 to recover the records.

Even as the police arrested the trio and presented the challan against them in the court, the Assistant Registrar failed to take possession of the seized records.

Sanjeev Sharma said some employees and officials of the Cooperative department were allegedly trying to protect the accused by ignoring the departmental reports and records and manipulating these.

He alleged that the officials were hatching a conspiracy to save the accused by destroying the records related to the transactions worth crores of rupees and presenting a new inquiry report.

Sharma said action was not possible against the accused without holding a proper inquiry into the case.

He also claimed that the Assistant Registrar in his statement to the court had stated that he would have no objection if the police discharge the accused. Sharma further claimed that the Assistant Registrar even failed to appoint an administrator for the society.

He said the department had taken affidavits from some of the loanees stating that they had returned the loan taken from the society but failed to produce any document through which it could be confirmed that the loanees had actually returned the loan amount. — TNS