The Bihar government will go to court to return its fodder scam to its Rs 950 crore. CBI will talk to IT (Income Tax Department). Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Samrat Chaudhary also said- We are seeing and doing all the ways so that these rupees can come to us.
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While handing over the investigation of the fodder scam to the CBI, the Patna High Court also gave him the responsibility of returning the embezzled money to the treasury of the Bihar government. The money, scamsters’ property were to be sold and returned.
29 years passed, not a single rupee returned to the treasury Unhappy with not getting money, the Bihar government is trying to take big initiatives. However, this is a very tough work. There will be big challenges in front of the government in fulfilling this. It has been 29 years since the investigation and action of the fodder scam.
The Patna High Court handed over the investigation to the CBI in March 1996. Dhakad leaders, officers involved in the scam went to jail. Gone Rajpat. Many were convicted. Jail, bail and other action are still going on.
Over the years, the second task related to action, ‘returning to the treasure of embezzlement of embezzlement’, is like this. According to the situation so far, this task is not expected to be completed in the near future. Agencies do not say anything about this. Except that action is going on.
Court order should be completed – Ravi Shankar Prasad
Senior Advocate and former Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who fights for an inquiry into the fodder scam, said-
The court order must be fulfilled. Be more active agencies. Legal and departmental complications should be resolved.
Results will be given only when the process is simple
Saryu Rai, a special petitioner and MLA of the case, who conducted a CBI inquiry into the fodder scam, said, ‘The order of the Patna High Court to return to the treasury of the Bihar government for the embezzlement of the fodder scam. The seizure, auction and sale of the scam related property is very difficult. The process should be simple and comfortable. Only then will meaningful results come.
Big leaders and officers were involved in the scam
The embezzled money in the scam, seizing the property of the accused, has to be auctioned and brought to the treasury. With these money, the accused made a lot of assets. Investigation agencies are destroyed. In fact, the maximum time of agencies was spent in investigating the investigation and punishment for the influential accused.
The petitioners who demanded the CBI inquiry from Patna High Court were relaxed as soon as the investigation started. Then, the process of seizure and auction is complicated and long. The accused leave no stone unturned to save their property. The seizure and auction have been stuck in a very strong legal complication. If the property of an accused was seized, he could not be auctioned. For many accused, the process of seizure has not been completed.
Property seizure board in Patna’s posh area
In many posh areas of Patna, boards of Income Tax Department attached to the assets of the accused are installed. One such board is at the main gate of Pushpanjali Plaza Apartment (Basant Vihar Colony, Boring Road, Patna). The department has attached flat number 102 of this apartment. This flat is of Tripurari Mohan Prasad, an accused in the fodder scam.
It is written on the board-This flat is attached under Section 222 (1) of the Income Tax Act 1961. Tripurari Mohan owes Rs 15.76 crore from 1994–95 to 2000-01. This has been seized for the recovery of this. Its purchase, sale, transfer and Iqranama have been described as a punishable offense.
One such board is installed outside a vacant land in Basant Vihar Colony (Boring Road, Patna). This land belongs to Shyam Bihari Sinha, the main accused in the fodder scam. Acre 4 Katha. This is also attachment. There is a discussion of the arrears of the Income Tax Department on Shyam Bihari Sinha on the board. They have left the world long ago. These boards were installed by the tax recovery officer (Central Zone, Patna).
A board is installed outside a vacant land in Basant Vihar Colony (Boring Road, Patna).
The order was till the confiscation of the dead accused, but the decision of April 15, 2018 was not effective.
Judge Shivpal Singh, a Judge of the CBI special court (Jharkhand), ordered the confiscation of the assets of the accused of the fodder scam, who has died. The Special Judge said that the case could not run on the dead. But their property must be confiscated.
He ruled on 15 April 2018 after hearing of Case Number RC 64 (A)/96. It was for 11 accused.
Only 18 flats of Tripurari Mohan were auctioned in 29 years In 29 years, 18 flats of Tripurari Mohan Prasad were auctioned. This work was done by the Income Tax Department. These flat were in the Wasi Kunj Complex near Saguna Mor (Patna). This was the first time when the immovable property of an accused was auctioned in Bihar in Bihar. The amount of 43 crore tax was made on Tripurari. Auction took place twice. 15 flats at a time. The second time 3 flats. The auction amount was with the Income Tax Department.