ACB book 10 including then Chief Officer and President of Maliya Miyana Municipality for scam

Morbi: The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Gujarat police today lodges a case against the Mamlatdar of Jasdan and the then in-charge Chief officer of Maliya Miyana municipality M M Solanki and then president Abdul Hussain Mower and 8 others for alleged scam of more than Rs one crore in the name of construction of roads.

Police said that Solanki was during his tenure from 18/04/18 to 13/05/18 as the in-charge chief officer of the municipality had misused his powers and through a criminal conspiracy along with two other contractual employees Subhan Allarakha Mer and Abdul Kadar Iliyas Katiya of the local body and its then president Abdul Hussain Mower had passed fake bills of road construction of Rs 1,08,12,595 in the name of six people. They has showed that the roads were constructed in 2015-16 despite the fact that no such roads were ever made. The other six accused in the case in whose names the fake bills were raises have been identified and booked as Salman Hussain Sanghwani, Nurmamad Abdulla Bhatti, Dilawar Yusuf Jam, Hanif Jusab Katiya, Allarakha Osaman Jeda and Popat Devji Dholakiya.

The case in this connection has been lodged in Morbi ACB police station under section 7 (c), 12, 13 (1) and 13 (2) of Prevention of Corruption Act and sections 120 (b), 465, 467, 477-A, 407 of the IPC.

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