Vigilance Directorate registers case against Buildings & Housing DE

GANGTOK, 10 July: Following establishment of prima facie case, Vigilance police registered a case against MK Subba, Divisional Engineer, Building & Housing Department on 09 July, 2012.
A criminal case under section 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against the Divisional Engineer. While officials are tightlipped on the details of the investigation, it is learnt that the Vigilance Directorate had a complaint or information that Mr. Subba had amassed wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income. Section 13 of the PC Act deals with criminal misconduct by a public servant, particularly in relation to misappropriation of funds or property entrusted or under his control, or the abuse of his position as a public servant for obtaining pecuniary advantage.
Soon after the case was registered, the Vigilance police conducted a raid at the residence of the DE at Development Area here during which various items and properties were documented and their valuations recorded. A memo of the items evaluated was also prepared.
The Vigilance police, it is informed, has been on Mr. Subba’s case for quite some time now and it was only after a series of preliminary investigations and scrutiny of his property and other holdings that the case was finally registered.
However the Vigilance Directorate is yet to establish a check period within which it can definitely say that the so called disproportionate assets were amassed or for which there is no satisfactory explanation. Mr. Subba, it is informed has been in government service for a long time, more than 20 years and a check period is important to pinpoint the period during which the allegations of acts omission and commission made against him were done.