CHENNAI: A poor court worker swindled Rs 1.5 crore of reimbursement money granted for road crash victims, prompting the Madras high court order review of records pertaining to motor injury cases in the nation.
Shocked from the misappropriation of funds with a court at Pattukottai, a unique seat of Justice Circuit N Prakash and Justice Abdul Quddhose appointed district-level nodal officers to inspect documents and to develop a non invasive and uniform platform to avoid such frauds later on.
This apart, a police complaint had been lodged, dependent on what Thanjavur CCB police filed a case and arrested the team member concerned.
“It had been noted that the true quantity of fixed deposit payments stipulated at the courts didn’t find a manifestation from the ledgers; in countless instances, the transport companies and insurers had deposited the reimbursement amounts without even mentioning the MCOP instance amounts to the charge of which they need to be deducted,” the bench said.
As a sequel to that, the settlement amounts hadn’t attained that the claimants; in many hundreds of cases disposed of years past, lakhs of rupees were discovered lying in the civil courtroom residue (CCD) with no invested in fixed deposits, and hence depriving the claimants of the legitimate interest part, the court included.
After the problem was taken up for hearing on Friday, the judges stated,”We’re of the opinion that so as to take on the large practice of cleaning the Augean stables, capable officials of the position of district judges must be appointed in most of the districts, that should initially be given training about how they must have to move with the job of review of the documents of this MCOP tribunals and put them directly, if they’re not in order” When the problem came to light, the courtroom government manufactured three committees — high-profile review committee, 3-member sub judge committee along with extra discipline judge-cum-principal sub judge committee.
The reports filed by the committees revealed several appalling characteristics in the method of document care in motor accident claims tribunals from the district, even paving the way for embezzlement.
Because it had been introduced to the view of the chief justice which the situation at the other districts may also be no greater, the chief prosecution contained the distinctive bench to move to more about the other side of the problem and to develop a strong, foolproof and uniform approach across the nation so that there wouldn’t be some scope for this potential misappropriation at the future.