The matter came to light during the verification of vehicles by the assistant regional transport officer administration.
An official of multipurpose cooperative society was booked in Philibhit district on Saturday night for showing two motorcycles as trucks hired for transportation of paddy from government procurement centres to rice mills for hulling.
A complaint was filed by district manager of Uttar Pradesh Cooperative Union Limited (PCU) Ramkesh against the accused Ashok Kumar. Sungarhi SHO Atar Singh stated that Kumar has been booked under section 420 of IPC.
The matter came to light during the verification of vehicles by the assistant regional transport officer administration.
The complainant, Ramkesh stated that during the e- tendering of paddy transportation from seven procurement centres of PCU the tenders had been finalised in the name of a cooperative society.
After the departmental direction, Kumar had filed a list of seven trucks attached to seven procurement centres their resignation numbers and the concerned drivers names to the department. Here the registration numbers of the two truck drivers were found to be of motorcycles he stated.
It is a fraud and against the norms of the departmental tendering procedure he added.
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