Thursday, 17 October 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The president of Uttarakhand Berojgar Sangh (UBS) Bobby Panwar accused the managing director of Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited Anil Kumar Yadav of engaging in corrupt activities while addressing a media conference here on Wednesday.
He commended the efforts of the Vigilance department in apprehending individuals on bribery charges. However, in the same breath, he said that the people being caught red-handed for taking bribes are small fries and the amount of bribes ranges from Rs 2,000 to Rs 8,000 while the big sorts, steeped headlong into corrupt practices, mysteriously elude the Vigilance net. “This discrepancy must be explained,” he said.
“For instance, Yadav has been indulging in corruption with impunity for years on end but the government and its agencies choose to look the other way. We suspect they are promoting him. According to our investigation, Yadav’s properties are registered in the names of his wife and children. We requested the authorities concerned to probe and take actions, but all our efforts proved futile. We are convinced that these corrupt officers are functioning in cahoots with the corrupt people ruling the roost. They are being given full indulgence in the form of extension, post-retirement,” he said.
He further said that undaunted by official mollycoddling and apathy, his organisation was again appealing to the Vigilance department and other anti-graft agencies to initiate investigation against UPCL’s managing director prior to taking exemplary actions for his involvement in corrupt practices. “In case nothing happens we will move the Uttarakhand High Court,” he warned.
“Besides, we will make the corruption issue and the official connivance with corruption our principal campaign plank for the Kedarnath Assembly bypoll slated on November 20,” Panwar added.
