The Chhattisgarh High Court ordered the Central Investigation Office (CBI) to continue the investigation of the accusation of a large amount of money – intended for the well -being of people with disabilities – postponed the highest bureaucrats and others.
The divisional bench of justice Parth Prateem Sahu and Justice Sanjay Kumar issued an order 23. While the original company was registered in 2020 after the High Court’s order on the same proposal, it was attacked at the Supreme Court and then referred to the High Court because the court proceedings continued for five years.
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Initially, the petitioner moved the court accused of financial discrepancies in the functioning of both centers and included almost a dozen services and former seminars, including four former main secretaries of the state, as well as the government of Chhattisgarh, as respondents.
According to the court order, the petitioner claimed that the state authorities were trying to crush and cover the whole problem so that they were rescued by high rank officials, even looking for an impartial probe.
The embezzled amount for 1,000 GBP Crore, which was reportedly backrest from 2004 to 2012, was attacked by respondents.
Huge money involved
In its order, however, in its order that “it is obvious that this court is available in the record Prima facie material that indicates that this is huge money, not thousands of Cror, causing the loss of the treasury and the state government did not take any specific steps in this respect”.
The special prosecutor of CBI at the Supreme Court B GOP Kumar said that while in the case of 2020 companies were against unknown persons 31 respondents-including bureaucrats and the former minister. “According to the petitioner, everyone was involved in fraud. Now that the probe renews if the CBI finds something confirmed, they will be named,” he said.
Problem
The High Court states that SRC was a registered company established in 2004 in Chhattisgarh as part of the National Program for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities and was an Agency involved in the planning, survey and implementation of plans, projects and schemes for people with disabilities. Higher officials of government authorities were appointed as members of the company. SRC was dissolved in 2019. PRRC is one of the State Department of Social Security established in 2012 on the basis of the United Nation Convention on the rehabilitation of people with disabilities for the provision of artificial limbs and the treatment of people with disabilities.
SRC has provided PrRC funds to pay employees as well as for the operation of the equipment, its operation and purchase of equipment, she said.
According to the petitioner, PrRC was operated only on documents without existing tangible activities, it has been shown that employees are named and working, but no recruitment process through advertising or otherwise no hospital for the disabled has never been drawn.
As it came to light
The petitioner Mr. Kundan Thakur was appointed in 2008 on the basis of a contract in Swalamban Kendra, first turned to the High Court and was looking for the direction for its regularization on duty. During the friendliness of his petition, he was asked to bring a certificate of inhumanity to regularization from his parental department. Later he learned that the salary was regularly pulled out in cash, which showed him that he was working as an assistant to Class II in PRRC, he said. He then filed a written proposal on the CBI instruction or other impartial agency to investigate the alleged financial inconsistencies and embarrassment of public money for SRC and PRRC.
Deverishi Thakur, a lawyer who represented the petitioner in this case, said that his client’s assertion is that government officials – including four former main secretaries – created a SRC with the intention of leaving the funds. From these officials, some retired, some of them worked on expansion, while some are still in operation.
The court order noted that SRC was registered in 2004, but never created its audit account. During the friendliness of this written petition and after the investigation, the Committee adopted the decision to dissolve SRC, she added.
The court also relied on the submission of the Chief Secretary of Chhattisgarh’s government that 31 financial discrepancies were found in a special audit.
Legal way
According to Mr. Deverishi Thakura, his client first turned to a court with a criminal petition, but due to the nature of the relief in this case the original petition was converted into litigation (Pil).
In 2020, the High Court ordered the CBI to register the company and confiscate the records of the same saw. This order was questioned in the Supreme Court, which in October 2021 annulled the High Court’s decision and, after hearing all parties, returned the case for a new assessment.
Published – 26 September 2025 11:48
