Kotdwar. The Garhwal Motor Honors Union Limited (GMOU) has caught a fraud of about Rs 2.32 crore in the financial year 2023-24. According to the committee formed to investigate the fraud, nine personnel including former chairman, general manager have been found guilty in the investigation. Legal action is being taken by the company, including suspension of the guilty employees. The people concerned have also been asked to start a legal process for recovery. SSP Pauri has been given Tahrir to file a case on behalf of GMOU.
On Tuesday, Mahavir Singh Rawat, convenor of GMOU Bachao Sangharsh Samiti and member of the Investigation Committee, revealed this in a press conference in the presence of GMOU President Bhaskaranand Bhardwaj. Said that the inquiry committee examined the records, cash books, vouchers for the financial year 2023-24. In the CA audit where there has been talk of fake payment of Rs 2,48,33,587. At the same time, the committee’s investigation found a fraud of Rs 2,32, 62, 571 rupees. Many employees misused the funds by taking out 60 to 90 thousand cash per day by making vouchers less than 10 thousand rupees. A fraud of Rs 13,12,405 was fraudulent from 2021-22 to the financial year 2023-24 from the sendry hold account of the vehicle owners who have died. It is said that 9 people including former president, general manager, the then cashier, account clerk, cashier assistant were found involved in this case. It is said that in the financial year 2024-25, the investigation of six months of financial irregularities is going on, which is expected to be more than one crore. Financial irregularities for the financial years 2021-22 and 22-23 will also be investigated by the company. The committee has demanded the dismissal of the former chairman’s membership till the recovery is from the company’s governing board. Officials said that three -page written Tahrir has been given to the police in this case.
This is the whole matter
Motor owners held an emergency meeting on August 19, 2024 against the then GMOU chairman and formed the GMOU Bachao Sangharsh Samiti. Under the banner of the committee, motor owners and laborers protested the annual general meeting on September 13, 2024 by lockout and protests at the GMOU office. On which an agreement was reached in the mediation of SDM and the election of the operators in a democratic manner. A committee was formed to investigate financial irregularities. The company issued an inquiry on October 20 to a four -member committee constituted under the chairmanship of Satyanand Bhatt, on which the inquiry committee started investigating the financial irregularities in the company.
Former GMOU president Jeet Singh Patwal told the allegations baseless
Kotdwar. Former GMOU president Jeet Singh Patwal has described all the allegations against him on behalf of the GMOU Bachao Sangharsh Samiti. Said that GMOU Bachao Sangharsh Samiti has no relation with GMOU. GMOU is a public guarantee company. The committee has no right to investigate financial irregularities in the company. If GMOU has to investigate financial irregularities, then get it done through the court. It is alleged that former operator of the company Mahavir Singh Rawat is giving false and unfounded figures to hide and save himself from the year 2013-14 to 2016-17, presenting the CA investigation report. It is not the CA of the company. The committee has prepared a report by putting arbitrary figures through a lawyer of income tax. If the said report is correct, then he should go to the competent court. We will follow the court’s decision. For this, he will personally file a defamation case against former operator Mahavir Singh Rawat and Investigation Committee.
