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Fresh trouble for Khemka as audit finds irregularities [Mail Today (India)](Mail Today (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) MORE trouble is set for senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka as the Haryana Principal Accountant General (PAG) audit confirmed irregularities in the state warehousing godown fabrication tender allotment when Khemka was the company's managing director, hinting at a CBI probe. The state government had asked the PAG to conduct a special audit of Haryana Warehousing Corporation accounts between July 11, 2008 to April 23, 2010 when Khemka was the managing director. The audit report has raised five irregularities in allotment of tenders to fabricate godowns with Galvalume sheets. The report says that a meeting was fixed on January 29, 2009 to open the financial bids to allot tenders to the lowest bidders but the bids were opened a day in advance. Sources close to the state government said that Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had already okayed the CBI probe in January this year but later decided to conduct the audit of the accounts to prove the allegations. Investigations by M AIL T ODAY revealed that Khemka on December 18, 2008 had got the chief minister's approval and the case of awarding the tenders was moved through proper channel. The internal probe done to prepare grounds to nail Khemka was based on a complaint by Ravinder Kumar who in 2013 alleged that Khemka as the managing director had awarded work orders to a Gujarat-based firm. Sources said Ashok Khemka in his letter to the Principal Secretary, Agriculture had clarified that the the rates quoted by Proflex Systems were lowest as compared to the rates of The Haryana State Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation Limited. (c) 2014 India Today Group. All Rights Reserved. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |