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Desilting scam: 13 engineers of GHMC arrested
The city police on Friday arrested 13 engineers working with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) for their alleged complicity in the scam involving desiltation of rainwater drains in the city.Â
​Hyderabad: The city police on Friday arrested 13 engineers working with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) for their alleged complicity in the scam involving desiltation of rainwater drains in the city.
The arrested engineers are Tirupati, Jameel Khan, Santosh, Lal Singh, Mohan Rao, Shankar, Papamma and five others. Earlier, police arrested 18 contractors in connection with the alleged scam. According to the police, the GHMC
had entrusted the work of desiltation of rainwater drains in the Central Zone to 18 contractors. As per rules, the contractors needed to submit the detailed bills relating to the works and also the vehicle numbers that were used to transport the silt removed from the drains.
However, the contractors did not execute the works, but submitted fake bills along with some fake numbers of the vehicles. Suspecting something fishy, the GHMC authorities verified the documents only to find that most of the vehicle numbers belonged to two-wheelers, auto-rickshaw and cars.
The contractors showed as if the silt weighing seven tonnes was transported by vehicles, but it turned out to be fake. Soon after detecting the fraud, GHMC authorities lodged a complaint with the Central Crime Station (CCS). Consequently, 18 contractors were arrested on April 28.
The contractors disclosed that 13 Assistant Engineers were hand in glove with them and helped in getting the bills passed without verification, the police said.
