TEAM HERALD
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PANJIM: The government sent PWD executive engineer PT Parkar on compulsory retirement, Tuesday, officials said. Parkar, along with former Congress PWD minister Churchill Alemao was under a cloud of allegations of corruption involved in the tendering process.
“Yes, he has been sent on compulsory retirement,” PWD chief engineer JS Rego told media.
In 2012, the government had suspended the executive engineer who was attached to division 25 – PWD (roads) for his alleged involvement in irregularities in the tendering of road works.
Parkar was accused of allegedly bifurcating 48 works into 258 tenders so as to avoid getting sanction from the higher authorities. Also tenders were issued without following proper procedures like publishing advertisements in newspapers. The work orders were issued in 2009 and 2010.
In December 2013 the Crime Branch filed an FIR against Alemao, Parkar and other government servants and contractors for alleged corruption under IPC Sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 403 (dishonest misappropriation of property), 409 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating) and charges of corruption under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
According to reports, the Crime Branch sought to know from former chief secretary Sanjay Srivastava why, as incharge of vigilance and as a public servant, he had failed to take any action on the matter in 2010 despite bringing the matter to his notice, and as such, why he should not be booked under Section 119 of IPC for failing in his duty to prevent the offence.
Srivastava was Chief Secretary of Goa from July 2009 to August 2012.
