CMP filed against top officials of Finance Depart for forgery and tampering of official records of “One Rank One Pension" File.
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RIPF has filed a criminal case before the Hon’ble Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Thiruvananthapuram against former Finance Principal Secretary Jose Cyriac in the cadre of Addl. Chief Secretary now on central deputation and other top officials of Finance Department for forging and tampering of government records relating to the disposal file leading to 2006 Pension Revision ‘One Rank One Pension’ scheme. The other accused are Finance Pension Wing former Additional Secretary Ponnamma Mathew, Additional Secretary D. Solamon, Deputy Secretary A. R. Ajayakumar, Accounts Officer S.V Kala, and Section Officer V. Ajayakumar.
The Hon’ble Court has initiated enquiry proceedings of the alleged forgery, tampering causing disappearance of evidence,destruction of documents to prevent its production as evidence, and has summoned two IAS officials former Expenditure Secretary Ishitha Roy (now district collectorKannur) former Finance Secretar in charge Sri. Paul Antony (present SC/ST Secretary)who arw witness in the case and who had been in the process of the file leading to 'One Rank One Pension' scheme.
The complaint petition alleged that the accused had manipulated the file pertaining to 'one rank one pension'scheme by tampering with 116 pages of the file with the intention of denying the benefit of the one rank one pension scheme to a section of the pensioners retired in between 1-7-2004 and 31-3-2004.
The case is posted for hearing on the 26th of July 2008.
2008-08-16 @ 10:39