Nagpur: The request committee was formed under the leader of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) party, Avinash Thakre to investigate the RS67 Lakh Stationery fraud on Thursday ordered the citizenship government to identify retired judges and retired auditors to help the panel.
Toi is the first to expose fraud in which five people, including two NMC employees, have been arrested.
Financial deviations at NMC come to after exposure.
The Mayor of Dayashankar Tiwari has formed a committee on December 31.
But the citizenship administration carried out his decision on January 13.
Apart from Thakre, the opposition leader Tansaji Wanve, BSP Corporator Vaishali Narnawa, former Chair of the Sanding Committee, Sandeep Jadhav and BJP Corporator and lawyer Sanjay Balpande attended a panel meeting which unanimously decided to include retired judges and retired auditors.
It feels like the panel will find it difficult to understand the function of the NMC account and the Ministry of Finance.
So, panel members support to trigger a retired auditor from NMC, said source.
The committee has also directed the administration to submit all details relating to fraud at his meeting on January 24, Thakre told TII.
The panel has also decided to call all NMC employees, private contractors, and even corporators.
For queries, the source said the panel had decided to check all the facts and charges.
“The panel will also ask all the canporators who highlight problems in public body meetings to stay present before them.
The panel will also record their statements,” said the source.
Even the statement of officials and employees who share and use IDs and passwords will be recorded.
The panel also took out direction to the administration to submit an audio clip from the alleged conversion from one of the defendant’s contractors with a Canporator.
He also asked the administration to submit a fact-finding report from the internal demand committee led by the Supplementary City Commissioner Deepak Kumar Meena and searched for a copy of FIR submitted by NMC at the conscious police station.