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Another corrupt Bihar official's home to house school
Sunday December 04, 2011 07:18:39 PM,
Imran Khan, IANS
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Another corrupt official's house confiscated
in Bihar
In the second
such case in Bihar, authorities here Saturday confiscated the
house of a suspended treasury clerk who is facing prosecution in a
corruption case, officials said.
The house will be converted into a primary school, as has been
announced by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
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Patna: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's threat that the ill-gotten property of corrupt
officials in Bihar will be confiscated and turned into schools is
about to be carried out once again.
The two-storey house of suspended treasury clerk Girish Kumar,
located in the posh Kadamkuan area here, was seized by
administration officials Nov 19 on court orders.
The authorities have decided to open a girls' residential school
in the house of the official who is facing prosecution in a
corruption case.
Officials said a girls' residential school at Kesri Nagar here
which is running in a rented house will be shifted to the
confiscated house.
The Patna High Court early in November dismissed Girish Kumar's
appeal challenging a special court's order to confiscate his
property. The clerk has been accused of amassing assets worth
Rs.51 lakh disproportionate to his known sources of income.
A vigilance case was lodged against him in 2006 for amassing the
assets between 1992 and 2004. The assets, as per a vigilance
probe, include two plots and a house here.
Human Resources Department principal secretary Anjani Kumar Singh
told IANS: "The government has initiated the move to open a girls'
residential school in the house."
Two days after confiscating the house of Girish, the Bihar
government also seized one of his plots Nov 21. "Girish Kumar's
plot in the Shivpuri area was seized by Patna administration
officials on court orders," an official said.
Nitish Kumar had declared a war against corruption after becoming
chief minister for the second consecutive term in November 2010.
"Soon after assuming office following a historic poll verdict last
year, Nitish Kumar announced that corruption will not be tolerated
and warned that government will confiscate the properties of
corrupt officials and turn these into primary schools," Bihar's
ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) state president Vashisht Narain
Singh said.
Nitish Kumar has repeatedly said at public meetings across the
state in the last few months that the ill-gotten property of
corrupt officials would be confiscated and turned into schools for
poor children.
In September a primary school was opened in the confiscated
three-storey house of former minor irrigation secretary Shiv
Shankar Verma. He became the first officer to face such action
under the Bihar Special Courts Act, 2009.
Verma and eight of his relatives faced a case of amassing
disproportionate assets amounting to Rs.1.44 crore.
Officials pointed out that last December, a special court ordered
confiscation of property of former motor vehicles inspector
Raghuvansh Kunwar.
The government directed that a school be opened in Kunwar's house
at Chaira village in Samastipur district. But later, Kunwar
challenged it in the Patna High Court and the case is still
pending.
He was allegedly caught while accepting a bribe of Rs.50,000 Sep
24, 2008, when he was the motor vehicles inspector of Aurangabad
district.
The government last year put in place the Special Courts Act that
will enable it to confiscate the properties of corrupt officials.
Six special courts, two each in Patna, Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur,
were constituted by the government with the permission of the
Patna High Court for speedy trial of cases involving more than
Rs.25 crore.
(Imran Khan can
be contacted at imran.k@ians.in)
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