HIMACHAL PRADESH SCHOLARSHIP SCAM, RELATED TO DISBURSAL OF SCHOLARSHIPS, BY THE DIRECTORATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, MONITORED BY THE HIGH COURT, UNDER PMLA, HAS BEEN CONCLUDED BY THE CBI, FILES CHARGES AGAINST 20 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES.

The Scholarship scam of the department of education Himachal Pradesh has been concluded by the CBI and has filed chargesheets against the twenty institutions and 105 persons, including the owners of the said institutions, personnel from the Directorate of the higher education, bank officials and the other private persons . During the course of investigations, 19 persons including employees of the Directorate of the higher education, Shimla and chair persons, vice chair persons, director, employees of the educational institutes and the bank officials were arrested. The CBI is taking cognisance of the matter since 2019 and booked private educational institutions of the state of Himachal Pradesh for fake and fraudulent claims of scholarship around 181 crores. There after the Himachal Pradesh High court monitored the investigations and status reports were filed accordingly. The case pertains to the misuse of the scholarship scheme/reimbursement of fees launched by the center and implemented across the state government to help the students of the SC/ST/OBC categories. Based on the CBI's FIR the ED also investigated disbursal of scholarships by the Himachal Pradesh directorate of higher education. Last year the ED had raided, 24 locations in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi under PMLA and taking cognisance in the matter.

HIGH COURT ISSUED NOTICE TO THE UNION GOVT AND THE CBI ON THE PLEA OF SHRI ASHOK KHEMKA TO FOLLOW LAW CODE MANUAL PREFIXED BY THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA AND CLAIMED BY THE APPLICANT AGAINST THE DEFAULTERS

The senior Haryana bureaucrat and a RTI renowned Resource person Ashok Khemka has moved Delhi High court against the CIC orders denying details of a corruption case under the RTI act for which copies of two enquiry reports of 2015 and 2019 along with the evidences exempting the CBI from making the full disclosure and the wrong delivery and the CIC considering the information under section 8 of the RTI act adjudication Delhi High court issued a notice to the Union  government through the (DOPT) and the CBI division, as the CIC had resticted the full disclosure of information to the said Shri Ashok Khemka by invoking section 8(1) (j) of the RTI act on its own even though the CPIO had claimed no exemption by way and virtue of which the CIC had acted coram non- judice ( without jurisdiction) In the above mentioned case of the RTI act publications and too as the MD Haryana Seeds Development Corporation Shri Ashok Khemka had filed a Complaint with the CBI for booking officials of the NCCF  and Nafed for selling seeds to the HSDC for an inflated price . During the 2013 ACB did the preliminary enquiry of case file at Chandigarh and closed the file after two years however the said Shri Ashok Khemka a senior IAS officer claimed that the ACB did so to suppress incriminating evidence and the enquiry was reopened after he wrote to the CBI Director on September 2015 ,as the matter remained long pending,Shri Ashok Khemka got back to the CBI for which it was refused on August 2020 to make any disclosure, citing the Explanation made by the RTI act publications under section 8 (1) (j) which has now been challenged before the honourable High court of Delhi to re examination the procedural matter placed before the competent court for the required disclosure of complete  information as the case file pertinent to the corruption .

CBI MAY FILE (FIR) AGAINST THE DEFAULTERS RESPONSIBLE IF SATISFIED EVEN WITHOUT PRELIMINARY ENQUIRY PROCEEDINGS

The Supreme court has stated that CBI may file FIR against the defaulters if satisfied on the captioned subject matter deliberation noticed by the authoritiy genuine and justified for which the honorable Supreme court of India has mentioned in the judgement that it is not necessary for the CBI to enquire into the matter before filing of the FIR against the Public servants.The court further stated that the law code manual of the CBI and the Court is clear on the captioned subject matter deliberation noticed by the study of protocol mentioned in the such evidences of the documents and the proceedings verified by the Investigating authorities responsible for the good governance and accountability under law code manual of the law and rules for which immediate action is required to be taken by the government.The number of such Complaints are lying pending with the government however no FIRs lodged against the defaulters even reminders to the State vigilance department as well as the High court is proof for which the government should follow the instructions of the office and authoritiy and take suo motu cognizance of the such Complaints in the interest of justice and transparency and accountability in the administration