Karnataka’ cupboard selected Thursday to arrange a Particular Investigation Group to inquire right into a Covid procurement rip-off that came about throughout BJP rule, following a fee’s interim report recommending motion, together with in opposition to former chief minister B S Yediyurappa, over irregularities that occurred throughout the pandemic.
The SIT, headed by an officer of the inspector-general rank, will study the interim report submitted in August by Justice John Michael D’Cunha. The Authorities has granted a further six months for the fee to submit its remaining report.
In October, a cupboard subcommittee was fashioned below Deputy Chief Minister D Okay Shivakumar to look into the interim report spanning 11 volumes. The subcommittee shared particulars of the report’s suggestions throughout a cupboard assembly, Legislation and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H Okay Patil instructed a information convention.
The fee examined round 50,000 paperwork earlier than submitting the report, he mentioned.
The SIT will register FIRs in opposition to and examine these held accountable by the fee.
Patil mentioned the irregularities resulted from “inhumane acts of ministers and officers” and that they might be delivered to e-book. “On the idea of the report, the SIT will examine. It should additionally begin taking motion. There are legal offences dedicated right here,” he mentioned.
The fee has really helpful motion in opposition to Yediyurappa and former minister B Sriramulu by analyzing a case the place PPE kits had been imported at inflated costs regardless of the provision of kits domestically at decrease costs. The fee additionally examined irregularities within the departments of medical schooling and labour throughout the pandemic.
CBI circumstances
The cupboard additionally directed the chief secretary to submit particulars of six circumstances of unlawful mining that the Central Bureau of Investigation refused to take up regardless of the Authorities handing them over in 2013.
The company registered FIRs and filed chargesheets solely in three circumstances. “In six circumstances, the CBI has declined to take up investigation, saying that the DOPT (the central Division of Personnel and Coaching) has not given permission but or citing another purpose,” Patil mentioned.
In 2018, the CBI mentioned that it couldn’t examine the circumstances however didn’t present any various for the Authorities to pursue motion within the circumstances, in accordance with the minister.
“The cupboard has determined to research these and take motion. The chief secretary was directed by the CM to current all particulars of those circumstances earlier than the cupboard,” he mentioned.
