The Assam State human right commission has ordered a probe into the alleged siphoning of a huge amount of money out of a grant for as many as 08 jails in Assam.
A division bench of its chairperson Dr Justice Aftab Hussain Saikia, member Tarun Pookan, on Friday issued a notice to the Assam Government to institute an inquiry into the allegation.
The order was issued after the Commission took sou moto cognizance of a news published in the vernacular dailylast week.
According to the allegations, the siphoning of a huge amount of money out of a grant of Rs.2 Crores and 50 Lakhs released by the then IG(Prisons) during 2014-15 in favour of 2(two) Supply Firms, viz., Tanmoy Enterprise and Rumal Enterprise, in an irregular way for the purpose of supplying food materials to around 2700 inmates of as many as 8(eight)Jails of the State under the Zones No. 2 and 3 respectively including at Morigaon, Nagaon, Diphu, Hamren, Golaghat Haflong, Karimganj and Silchar, as a result of which there has been no supply of food articles made by the said Firms to those Jail inmates since August, 2014.
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