Assam's multi crore ICDS scam : V&AC sleuths grilled former Congress minister
According to reports, the V&AC team grilled the former Social Welfare minister for two hours in connection with Rs 2250- crore scam in the Social Welfare department, which was unearthed following a directive of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
A top official of the V&AC said during interrogation the former minister revealed some vital information on the scam.
Earlier, the vigilance team had grilled at least 21 officials, including three IAS officials.
Last year, the CM had directed to probe the multi crore scam that took place during the previous Congress regime.
Investigation has revealed that an amount of Rs 150 crore was siphoned off every year from the social welfare department of the state over
the past 15 years.
The investigation also detected nine lakh fake entries of ‘ghost children’ in the ICDS list.
The top official of V&AC said 390 fake Anganwadi centres have been identified, which were fraudulently entered for siphoning off the money.
The V&AC sleuths had arrested an employee of Social Welfare department last year.
The investigating team had also seized several dozens file in connection with the multi crore scam.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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