Three years after the Northern Railways suffered over Rs 15 crore losses in purchasing reflectors, station signboards and railway crossing boards at inflated rates, the Railway Vigilance Department in Delhi has issued charge sheets against 24 employees of the Ferozepur Railway Division for causing the losses by circumventing the purchasing authorisation limits.
Many senior officials of the Railway Engineering and Accounts wings are among those who have been served the charge sheet. The charge sheet was issued after two separate inquiries by the Railway Vigilance Wing and the CBI. Four days back, 24 charge sheets were received and these have been further served to 22 officials of the Engineering Wing and 2 of the accounts branch of the Ferozepur Railway Division, said Divisional Railway Manager Vishwesh Chaubey.
Besides many Senior Section Engineers (Works and P-Way), a retired Additional Divisional Railway Manager, a Divisional Manager, an Assistant Divisional Engineer (now posted at Gurgaon) of the Railway Engineering Wing and a Senior Section Officer (accounts) are among the 24 charged sheeted employees. The case relates to purchase of a huge number of reflectors, station sign boards and railway crossing boards three years back for 242 stations in Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir and a part of Himachal Pradesh under the Ferozepur Railway Division.
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