Patna,(BiharTimes): The vigilance department has sent fresh reminders to the principal secretaries of General Administration Department, Education, Health, Environment and Forest, Water Resources, Panchayati Raj, Home (Police) Departments etc giving them lists of about 250 officers and employees (many of them retired) against whom prosecution sanctions have been pending for the last many years.
As per the list posted on the website of General Administration Department (GAD), the highest number of 22 cases is pending in GAD. This is followed by 10 in Education Department, seven in Environment and Forest, six each in Panchayats Raj and Health and five each in Water Resources and Home (Police) Departments.
The officers includes senior IAS (many of them retired), former chief engineers, retired ADMs, deputy collectors, BDOs, former registrars of B N Mandal and L N Mithila University, heads of several post-graduate (PG) departments and principals of several colleges.
Thirty-one teachers of B N Mandal University, including PG heads, figure as accused.
Former Bihar State Finance Corporation MD Ashok Kumar Singh, who retired as chief secretary of Jharkhand and former HRD joint secretary Baghambar Prasad, who superannuated long back, are among them.
Former IAS official Brijbhushan Sahay, who was commissioner in public health engineering department and who retired way back in 1990 was chargesheeted in a case, but the GAD sanction for his prosecution has been eluding the vigilance department since November 8, 1990.
Ashok Singh’s case is awaiting prosecution sanction since August 2002. The vigilance department sought sanction against Prasad first on September 9, 1993.
The vigilance department is also awaiting sanction to prosecute seven Indian Forest Service officers. They include Arun Kumar Sinha, B C Nigam, Sarvesh Singhal, Mahendra Kardam, Sanget Kumar and Bhola Prasad, who were divisional forest officers between 1993 and 1994. Most of them were allotted Jharkhand cadre after bifurcation of Bihar. Some of them have since retired.
Chief Secretary A K Sinha, after reviewing the progress of vigilance cases on Feb 8, announced that the government would take action against officials who delayed grant of sanction in corruption cases. Such officials would also face dismissal like the corrupt officers, he said.
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