Case registered against 7 officers of Education dept by SVO

A case was today registered against seven officials of Education Department by the Jammu and Kashmir State Vigilance Organisation in connection with embezzlement and misappropriation of government funds worth lakhs of rupees in Kunzar zone of Baramulla district during 2007-12.
The case was registered against four former Zonal Education Officers (ZEOs), a senior assistant and two teachers of Kunzar zone after an inquiry revealed that they have dishonestly and fraudulently misappropriated and embezzled the government funds during the five-year-long period, a spokesman of the SVO said.
The SVO conducted the inquiry on a complaint filed by Chief Education Officer Baramulla into the allegations that embezzlement and misappropriation of the funds by the officials of Education Zone Kunzar have been detected by an audit team during audit of accounts for the period April 2007 to March 2012, he said.

The inquiry found that the senior assistant in the office of ZEO Kunzar, Hilal Ahmad Mir, during the period February 2008 to November 2010 hatched a criminal conspiracy with the then ZEO Noor Mohammad and was later joined by succeeding ZEOs Abdul Hamid, Javed Ahmad and Masooda Shah and teachers - Nazir Ahmad Rather and Mohammad Shafi Sheikh -, who dishonestly and fraudulently misappropriated and embezzled the government funds in lakhs by way of raising factious bills on account of various pretexts like purchases of items and salaries of employees.
The spokesman said further investigation has started but no one was arrested so far.