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Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n ITANAGAR, 10 Oct:<\/strong> The Itanagar permanent bench of the Gauhati High Court (HC) on Thursday directed the state’s vigilance department to conduct a preliminary enquiry into the alleged irregularities in the construction of the approach road from Ribang to the tourist home in Sede, in Pijeriang circle of Pakke-Kessang district, executed through the Pakke-Kessang PWD division executive engineer under SIDF 2018-19.<\/p>\n The HC issued the directive based on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by one Logo Natung, of Rebang (Sede) village, on 7 July, 2021, alleging that there were discrepancies and misappropriation of fund in the project.<\/p>\n Natung in his PIL also alleged that, though the FIR was lodged with the Special Investigation Cell (SIC) of the vigilance department, no action has been initiated yet.<\/p>\n Directing the SIC to conduct a preliminary enquiry into the matter within two months, Justice Nani Tagia asked the SIC to register a regular FIR if it finds that a cognizable offence has been committed.<\/p>\n “To make preliminary enquiry on complaint dated 07.07.2021 filed by the petitioner before the officer-in-charge, Special Vigilance Cell, Itanagar forthwith, which shall be completed within a period of 2 (two) months, any commission of cognizable offence is made out in the enquiry made, the respondent authority shall register a regular FIR and investigate the matter in accordance with law,” Justice Tagia stated in his direction.<\/p>\n \u00a0In the FIR he lodged with the SIC, Natung said that the 1.170-km approach road project was sanctioned under SIDF 2018-19 with an amount of Rs 50 lakhs. However, he said, “the Pakke-Kessang PWD division executive engineer prepared a detailed project report of Rs 49,04,325.”<\/p>\n He alleged that the PWD division’s EE, AE and JE, in collusion with the contractor, M\/s Pring Enterprises, cheated the state government by fraudulently paying the contractor Rs 40,66,901 despite no work having been carried out.<\/p>\n Natung claimed that the road was actually constructed by Sushee Infra & Mining Pvt Ltd in 2017, following a request from the villagers of Rebang (Sede). He further claimed that the Pakke-Kessang PWD division showed the work as having been executed by it, “with an ulterior motive to siphon off public money from the state exchequer.”<\/p>\n Earlier, speaking to a local channel, the proprietor of M\/s Pring Enterprises denied the allegation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 10 Oct: The Itanagar permanent bench of the Gauhati High Court (HC) on Thursday directed the state’s vigilance department to conduct a preliminary enquiry into the alleged irregularities in the construction of the approach road from Ribang to the tourist home in Sede, in Pijeriang circle of Pakke-Kessang district, executed through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-173977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}