Wheat Seed Scam: FIR against salesman, officials for embezzling govt subsidy
1 week ago

Wheat Seed Scam: FIR against salesman, officials for embezzling govt subsidy

Hindustan Times  

The Haryana Anti-Corruption Bureau has registered an FIR against Rajesh Kumar, a salesman at the Barwala Seed Distribution Centre, along with other unidentified officials and employees of the Haryana Seeds Development Corporation, for their alleged involvement in a large-scale subsidy fraud related to wheat seed distribution. Eighteen farmers from Barwala Seed Distribution Centre stated that they had purchased wheat seeds in 2020-21 but in lesser quantities than recorded. However, it was found that at the Barwala Seed Distribution Center, sales representative Rajesh Kumar falsely recorded excessive purchases under the names of 18 farmers and completely fabricated purchases for 10 others. Further, the sales register, cash memos, and stock register of the Barwala Seed Distribution Center for the year 2020-21 were found missing from the records of Haryana Seeds Development Corporation Limited, Yamunanagar.

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Hindustan Times  

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Firm repays farmer for faulty seeds
6 years, 8 months ago

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Wheat scam in Thrissur alleged
8 years, 3 months ago

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Situation not so bad in Adilabad, Karimnagar and Nizamabad
8 years, 5 months ago

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The Hindu  

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Now, Khattar govt chargesheets Khemka over unsold wheat seeds
8 years, 8 months ago

Now, Khattar govt chargesheets Khemka over unsold wheat seeds

Hindustan Times  

The BJP government in Haryana has ordered to chargesheet 1991-batch IAS officer Ashok Khemka for minor penalty under Rule 10 of All India Services Rules for causing avoidable financial loss to Haryana Seeds Development Corporation in 2012-13 on account of unsold stocks of wheat seed. As per the articles of charges served on him, Khemka as managing director, HSDC, did …

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10 years, 4 months ago

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Hindustan Times  

Deciding a 26-year-old case, the Patiala district court has acquitted BJP leader and former chief parliamentary secretary Raj Khurana and Congress MLA Amrik Singh Dhillon besides 37 other accused in a fertiliser scam. HT Image Those convicted by the court of additional district and sessions judge Rajinder Aggarwal are Swaran Singh, managing director of private firm Modern Agro-Chemical Industries, Rajinder …

CBI inquires into Khemka's complaint on seed supply
11 years, 5 months ago

CBI inquires into Khemka's complaint on seed supply

Firstpost  

It is alleged that HSDC wanted to purchase nearly 10,000 tonnes of wheat seeds from private suppliers in case cooperative agencies—NCCF and NAFED—did not have enough stocks with them. New Delhi: CBI has started a preliminary enquiry on a complaint by whistleblower IAS Ashok Khemka alleging irregularities in the supply of wheat seeds to Haryana Seed Development Corporation by NAFED …

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