The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) investigating the Rs 24cr misappropriation case involving three executives of private companies and government officials of the social welfare department, has seized 127 files from the social welfare commissioner's office in Pune. Of this, 28 files have been found relevant to the case and investigations have revealed forgery and cheating.
Additional commissioner of police (ACB) Vishwas Nangre Patil said: "After scanning the files, we have found that many of them had been forged. There was also large-scale cheating involved. The number of the accused in the case will go up, as we suspect many government officials to be involved in the scam. We are looking into the involvement of each person."
ACB officials added that as part of the programme, 28,000 students from government institutions were supposed to be trained in English, computers and personality development. However, the training did not take place as per norms.
According to ACB, 70% of the allotted funds, which is Rs 24 crore, was given to private companies and these companies failed to complete the training programme.
As per the contract, 30% of the fund was allotted for registration of students, 40% for training, 15% for examination and 15% for issuing certificates.
"Seventy per cent of the fund was allocated for registration and training, but our investigations have revealed that that has not taken place," added Patil.
ACB is also investigating the sequence of events starting from how the tender was floated, the transfer of money, violations at each step and details of the contract.
At present, former social welfare minister's PA, Prashant Alladwar, is under ACB radar, as it was he who had outsourced the training work to his company, RIT Resources Private Limited, and allegedly made Rs 16 lakh from it.
Last week, ACB booked Ravindra Indulkar, regional head, Birla Shloka Education Limited, Guruprasad Krishnamurthi, vice president (VP), Zenith Software Limited, Raju Pandey, VP, Core Education Technologies Limited, and officials of the Social Welfare Dept.
According to ACB, private companies which had been given contract in 2012 to train students in government institutes, violated rules and outsourced the work to an organisation floated by Alladwar and another company.
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