To, Mamata Banerjee, Honble Chief Minister Government of West Bengal, Writers Building, Kolkata 1.

Date: ________

A case of Wholesale Stealing at A.M.C. Asansol

Sub: Prayer for investigation of malpractice / defalcation of money at Asansol Municipal Corporation by Central Buru Investigation. Ref.: Misappropriation & defalcation of crores of Money of A.M.C. Asansol including the fund / aid given by Central Government & State Government. Madam, We the undersigned persons beg to state as follows: 1) That previously Asansol Municipal Corporation was being run by left front Board. Thereafter in the Municipal Election of May 2009 T.M.C. & Congress jointly got majority and Sri Tapas Banerjee took the oath as Mayor of Asansol Municipal Corporation on 17th May 2009 but no meeting to elect/select MIC was called for by him and as such no M.I.C. was elected/selected for about three (3) months and during this period the Mayor issued several work orders to different contractors without any Tenders and without getting any sanction of the board of councilors. Thereafter M.I.C. were nominated in the month of August 2009 but unfortunately the entire work orders and bills are/ were being issued and passed by the Mayor himself without the knowledge of concerned MIC and also without getting any sanction of the board of councilor and there by HOAXING the Act & Rules.

2) That the main agenda of the last Municipal Election held in May 2009 was high scale corruption by the Left Front board and bills amounting to Rs. 26 crores remains unpaid as there were some allegation of using Sub - standard materials used in the Buildings constructed at Chand Mari area (Ward No. 28) under in BSUP Scheme (a Central Government Scheme) and as such before the Municipal Election leaflets were circulated by some candidates the then party in opposition (i.e. T.M.C.) alleging misappropriation

of Fund in the said housing project at Chand Mari. The Mayor Sri Tapas Banerjee even after taking oath as Mayor declared that he will make an enquiry by the Engineer under Ministry of Municipal affair Writers Building Kolkata but surprisingly thereafter for some obvious reason the Mayor without getting any Report from Kolkata dishonestly and clandestinely passed the Disputed bill for Rs. 26 crores without getting any sanction/ consent for the board of councilors and even consent or signature of the concerned M.I.C. Sri Lakhan Thakur and he had no knowledge about the passing of such a the huge bill of 26 crores. The reason of passing such disputed bill is for obvious reason and best known to the Mayor.

3) That Sri Tapas Banerjee is an Advocate by profession but his Practice was practically nil and he ultimately managed to get permission / authority to act as a Notary Public from Central Government and even after joining as Mayor he is still continuing with the work as Notary Public.

4) That the Mayor, Sri Tapas Banerjee was an active congress leader and through out his life he had/has good connection with CPM Party and its leaders and strongly opposed the T.M.C. Party till January/February 2009 and on enquiry it will be found that in May 2009 Municipal Election the wining/ sitting congress councilor Rabiul Islam of Ward No. 14 sacrificed his wining/sitting seat to Sri Tapas Banerjee who by that time joined in T.M.C. after the Singur incident in the 1st part of 2009 and Rabiul Islam switched over to ward no. 17 though at the relevant time there was no knowledge about the fate of the municipal election held in the month of May 2009 and/or the expected result of said Municipal Election in May 2009.

5) That on through enquiry by an impartial Agency it will be revealed that Sri Tapas Banerjee has been running the corporation in association with two (2) of his old friends namely Rabiul Islam & Sri Amar Chatterjee, both of whom are Congress Councilor Sri Amar Nath Chatterjee is Dept. Mayor another i.e. Rabiul Islam is a MIC and no T.M.C. councilors have any say in the matter of administration of the corporation excepting two T.M.C. Councilors namely Smt Uma Saraf & Lakhan Thakur who are

getting some extra benefits and concession from the Mayor. (Photography with Uma is enclosed herewith).

Thereafter Sri Jitendra Tewari joined hands with the Mayor A.M.C. since when Mr. Tewari captured the Union of Sweepers/casual labours/garbage cleaners. The corruption of the Garbage cleaning Dept. is so high that it is now Talk of Town.

6) That if the records of A.M.C. are thoroughly searched / inspected by an impartial Agency it will be found that 90% of the work orders from 17th May 2009 to January 2013 have been issued without any notice or seeking any Tenders from intending contractors. It would be more surprising to note that the contractors whose Bills for 26 crores were stopped/with held at the initial stage by the Mayor on the allegation of using of Substandard materials in the construction of Houses / Flats at Chand Mari (Ward No. 28) and the Mayor himself called for a report from the Engineer under Ministry of Municipal affair but the Mayor without getting or waiting for the report passed such disputed huge amount of bills without the consent/sanction of Board of councilor for the reason best known to the Mayor. Thereafter said contractor was again allotted with further (new) Big contract / jobs after passing the disputed bills for 26 crores. Moreover 95% of the old contractors are getting work order who were/are direct supporters of previous Party in Power and use to perform contract job during the previous board and said old contractors are being favored by the Mayor blindly with fresh contract Jobs without Floating any Tenders as because most of the contractors are friends of the Mayor who are residing in Ward no. 15 i.e. adjacent Ward of Mayor i.e. Ward No. 14. Details of allotment of jobs/work orders from June 2009 to December 2012 were sought for by there Application under RTI Act but no reply was given by the Mayor.

7) Corporation has purchased new generator but for months together the said new generator was lying idle and the Mayor illegally paying hire charges for two generators set to a contractor for obvious reason.

8) A car of the Corporation was lying unrepaired since long and the corporation hired two cars from a person who happened to of a friend of the Mayor.

9) That there are also serious illegality about the allotment of big electrical maintenance job for important roads like G.T. Road, Sen Relaigh Road, S.B. Gorai Road, Hutton Road, Netaji Subhas Road, Burnpur Road, Dhadka Road, N.S. Road, etc. as work orders for Electrical Maintenance job have been issued to two favorable contractors who were/are active members of C.P.M. Party.

Similarly illegality will be found in the matter of allotment of Cycle Stand, Motor Cycle Stand, Motor Car Stand and on enquiry it would be found that 4 (four) councilor namely Uma Saraf, Rabiul Islam and Dayamoy Roy etc. got the allotments of those stand/Parking space in the Benami of their relatives or Hench men in other words the Asansol Municipal Corporation has now become a corruption cum Trading centre of Mayor and some of his favorite councilors.

10) That after taking oath the Mayor declared that he will take legal steps against a Promoter named Sri Sachin Roy who have constructed a shopping Complex named Parbati Shopping Arcade and a Hotel named Parbati International covering the side land of G.T. Road i.e. covering the Footpath of G.T. Road Opposite to old R.K. Mission School. But Sri Sachin Roy has managed the Mayor Mr. Tapas Banerjee and his God Father Sri Kalyan Banerjee who also filed a Writ Petition before Honble High Court at Calcutta against Sri Sachin Roy but subsequently Mr. Kalyan Banerjee abandoned the case for some obvious reason and the reason there of is best known to both of them. Now after good relation said Sachin Roy is supplying Foods in every occasion held in the House of the Mayor. Be it mentioned that Sri Tapas Banerjee has also managed to give a big space in the Parbati Shopping Arcade/Complex to one of his relative Sri Tapan Banerjee for staring a restaurant under the name & style of Jadu Kadai.

11) Though Mr. Rabiul Islam by profession is an Advocate but his practice was zero but after getting the Post of MIC and some Important portfolio he has purchased a land within his

Ward values Rs. 14,00,000/- and constructed a palecious building after spending Rs. 20,00,00/-.

12) Mr. Rabiul in association with the Mayor managed to pass Rs. 19,00,000/- (Rupees nineteen lacks) in the name of construction of Nazrul Park on the side land of G.T. Road and in front of Gupta College of Pharmacy Asansol (formally R.K. Mission School Asansol). Though the actual cost should not be more then Rs. 30,000/- (Rupees thirty thousand) under any circumstances.

Be it mentioned that prior to construction of the PARK private Buses were being parked during the night hours as well as during repairing work after blocking the entire frontage of Gupta College of pharmacy. And Sri Rabiul Islam has also taken Rs. 5,00,000/- (Rupees five lacks) from Gupta College of Pharmacy Asansol on the plea that he will construct the Park over the front space of the College i.e. on the side land of G.T. Road so that the Buses will not be Parked in front of the college. So Mr. Rabiul Islam has minted illegally from both ways i.e. from Gupta College & from A.M.C.

13) At the initiation of Rabiul Islam the Park has been constructed illegally with full support of Sri Tapas Banerjee the Mayor over the side land of G.T. Road and he managed to get a bill of Rs. 19,00,000/- (Rupees nineteen lacks) passed and paid from the exchequer of A.M.C. though for such construction hardly Rs. 3,00,000/- (Rupees three lacks) has been spent for pillaring (three feet) around the boundary of the Park and one doom light over each of those pillars and a statue of Kaji Nazrul has been place costing hardly about Rs. 30,000/- (Rupees thirty thousand) by the side of the Park and hardly Rs. 2,000/- (Rupees two thousand) has been spent for planning some small plants.

14) Moreover Mr. Rabiul Islam has constructed a Congress Party office illegally over a portion of the said side land of G.T. Road Mr. Islam has also managed pass a Bill of Rs. 10, 00,000/- (Rupees ten lakhs) for fixing Electric Bulb /Illumination of a Barior ground (Kabarsthan) within his Ward though hardly Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees fifty thousand) has been spent for such illumination/ electrification.

15) Moreover after getting some Important Portfolio like Water, Electricity & Culture/social function Mr. Rabiul Islam in collusion with the Mayor Mr. Tapas Banerjee has passed a pending/ disputed bill of Kalajharia water filtration/Treatment Plant for Rs. 70,00,000/(Rupees seventy lacks) and just before and after the payment of the said dispute bill the Trio of A.M.C. along with the councilor Sri Lakhan Thakur participated two night Party hosted by the contractor Mr. Bappa Acharjee @ Subhasis Acharjee the proprietor of Acharjee Construction.

16) Now maintenance job of Kalajharia Water Treatment Plant has been allotted to one Bidyut Das who is also doing the job of erecting high must tower and fitting of Metal Light and he has also been allotted with the job of street light maintenance under Boro V. There are 2 (two) other contractor name Bappi Lahiri Proprietor of M/s. S.L. Udyog and Bappi Halder Proprietor of M/s. P.K. Enterprise who were also allotted with the Major part of maintenance of Street Light job.

17) Moreover there are serious malpractices in the matter of water connection in multistoried building. For example there are 20 numbers of Flat in a Multistoried building the Promoter deposits necessary official charges for 10 Flats and getting water connection with big diameter pipes the Promoter use to give connection us all the 20 Flats in lie of huge amount of illegal gratification.

18) Moreover for every water connection other then official charges requisite fees deposited by the owner along with the application form but for getting Physical water connection for residential house Mr. Rabiul Islam use to charges extra amount of Rs. 5,000/- (Rupees five thousand) similarly for a Multistoried building he use to charge Rs. 30,000/- (Rupees thirty thousand) to Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees fifty thousand) according to the number of Flats and for any Industrial or Commercial house he charges Rs. 1,00,000/- (Rupees one lack).

19) For non payment of gratification in the water connection of Sri _____________________ a clerk of A.C.J.M. Court Asansol was with help of a Private Mistry. But after such

connection Mr. Rabiul Islam became so much annoyed that threatened clerk Sri _______________________ but at the interruption of A.C.J.M. Asansol Mr. Rabiul Islam could not do any harm to Mr. __________________________

20) Another partner of Mayor is Sri Amar Nath Chatterjee Deputy Mayor of A.M.C. holding very important portfolios out of which main Dept. are Tax Department, Trade license and Allotment Parking space etc.

21) Mr. Chatterjee after getting illegal gratification use to reduce the Municipal Tax of residential house, business house and commercial house. For example the Tax of Parbati Complex situated by the side of G.T. Road is only Rs. 4,500/- which should be at least Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees fifty thousand) and Tax of ground Floor at Sree Apartment, Burnpur Road is only Rs. 4,000/- where IDBI Bank is being run the owner of the said Floor is getting rent of Rs. 50,000/- per month. Whereas the Private owner of a Flat in the same building has to pay at Rs. 4,500/- (Rupees four thousand five hundred) p.a.

22) Mr. Chatterjee is charging Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees fifty thousand) for big Industries, Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees twenty thousand) for big Trading House, Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) for big Shop room, and Rs. 3,000/- (Rupees three thousand) for small Shop Rs. 2,000/-.

23) Within Asansol Town there are numbers of parking space previously those spaces were allotted by depositing quotation money ranging from Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) to Rs. 40,000/- (Rupees forty thousand) per year. Now Mr. Amar Nath Chatterjee is permitting the previous allottee on paymenting gratification.

24) That during the period of Mr. Jayanta Kumar Aikat (W.B.C.S.) ADM Asansol who was also acting as Commissioner of Asansol Municipal Corporation illegally activity were continue at Ramped as the Mayor managed to gain over him. Three (3) R.T.I. Applications were made during his tenure but he did not case o give any answer to the quires made by one Sri Biren Mukherjee of Burnpur Road and supported the corruption of the Mayor.

Thereafter on his transfer from Asansol one Smt. Shilpa Gouri Saria (IAS) S.D.O. Asansol was appointed as Commissioner of A.M.C.

25) That during the short span of Smt. Shilpa Gouri Saria Commissioner A.M.C. she detected huge malpractice / defalcation of money in the Department of Environment and she stopped issuing work order without any Tender and started E Tendering. Be it mentioned that one Sri Tapas Ghosh got appointment in the year 2004 during the period of previous board when Sri Tapas Roy of Left Front appointed as the Mayor of Asansol Municipal Corporation.

26) That in the month of May 2009 Sri Tapas Banerjee sworn in as Mayor of Asansol Municipal Corporation and Sri Tapas Banerjee not only extended the terms of service of Tapas Ghosh for a further period of 5 (five) years but also appointed him as his personal assistant and the malpractice in the matter of allotment of Petrol / Diesel in cleaning / Safai Trucks, purchasing of various cleaning apparatus and preparing of bills against Ghost Safaiwalla (sweeper) and such practice is being continued for last 3 (three) years and the Mayor himself continued to pass those false/fake bills directly and ultimately the previous Commissioner of A.M.C. cum S.D.O. Asansol Smt. Shilpa Gouri Saria (IAS) who happened to be a Chartered Accountant, started the practice of payment of bills and salary of Safaiwallas through respective Bank Account as a result of which the amount of money being paid to contract labours /sweeper/garbage cleaner reduced to half the amount and the moment the Commissioner Smt. Shilpa Gouri Saria ordered to make payment through cheque the cat came out of the Bank and the amount to be paid reduced to half and it is Shilpa Gouri Saria who caught a long old process malpractice red-handed. After such detection the Mayor Sri Tapas Banerjee has no other alternative but to admit the fact of the malpractice in the Municipal Corporation but he tactfully shifting the burden solely upon the officer Sri Tapas Ghosh. Thereafter said Tapas Banerjee with the help of a State Leaders / Minister managed to get the commissioner cum S.D.O. Smt. Shilpa Gouri Saria transferred from Asansol. The amount of malpractice and/or defalcation of Municipal Fund only in the Account of environment department exceeds 1.5 (one and half) crores of Rupees beside the other malpractice in the

department of Water, Electricity, Tax, Trade license and Roads etc. Finding no other alternative The Mayor A.M.C. lodge a written complaint on 23.05.2013 alleging

a) Sri Tapas Ghosh, Environment Officer of A.M.C. for embezzlement of Corporation Fund by entering into Criminal conspiracy with the President and Secretary of Paribesh Bandhab Sayanbhar Gosthi to the tune of rupees more than Rs. One crore since last few years on the basis of false forged bills and attendance cum payment sheet for payment in respect of to the Drivers/Supervisions//Labours of the garbage lifting vehicles.

b) As per our office order Paribesh Bandhab Sayambhar Gosthi, K.S. Road, Dipu Para Asansol 2 was engaged for lifting garbage from Borough No. 1 IV of Asansol M.C. and the Drivers/Supervisions/Labours were being made by Asansol Municipal Corporation by cheque in favour of the said Gosthi on the basis of bills submitted in the name of President and Secretary of the said Gosthi being certified of the Sanitary inspectors of the respective Boroughs and Sri Tapas Ghosh Environment Officer.

c) It may be mentioned here that Sri Tapas Ghosh look after said job of lifting of garbage on behalf of Asansol Municipal Corporation as in charge. The attendance cum payment sheets of the Drivers/Supervisions/Labours were prepared Inspector and duly certified by the Sanitary Inspectors and environment Officer.

d) For the period from 26th March to 25th April 2013 for Rs. 8,31,600,00 only for payment to the Driver/Supervisions/Labours for the said job submitted for payment being certified for Borough No. 1 IV by the respective Sanitary Inspectors along with attendance cum payment sheet but without any sheet under the Centrally operated Vehicles as was previously done. head

e) You are therefore requested ton Start Specific case against Sri Tapas Ghosh Environment Officer of Asansol M.C. and office bearers of the said Gosthi for committing Criminal misappropriated of the Corporation fund amounting to more

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than Rs. 1 crore and for committing forgery and to institute investigation at your earliest.

27) As per FIR lodge by The Mayor the irregularity was detected the Bills from March to April 2013. In the wards only after the order of Smt. Shilpa Gouri Saria that the payment will be made through Bank and Smt. Shilpa Gouri Saria has been transferred on 13.05.2013 and Mayor lodge the FIR 23.05.2013 i.e. after 10 (ten) days of her transfer claiming that only Tapas Ghosh and Paribesh Bandhab Sayanbhar Gosthi are responsible.

28) From the allegation made in the FIR it is clear that The Mayor has admitted that the embezzlement of Fund is continuing for last few years but the Mayor Sri Tapas Banerjee in the prayer portion of the FIR accuses Sri Tapas Ghosh and the President and Secretary of the Paribesh Bandhab Sayanbhar Gosthi but tactfully did not mentioned the names of Sanitary Inspectors of the A.M.C or made them accused in the F.I.R. It is an admitted fact that Mayor has signed and passed all the Bills since June 2009 till the detection by Smt. Shilpa Gouri Saria.

In the FIR the environment officer i.e. Tapas Ghosh is practically a escape goat and The Mayor before sending the case to Police got a declaration in the chamber of chamber Sri Jitendra Tewari under threat to the effect that I am solely responsible for the malpractice and defalcation of corporation fund and forwarded a written complaint making the officer solely responsible for such huge amount of defalcation of Public money and thereby before the enquiry by Police/investigating Agency the Mayor decided the case of defalcation and there by Fixed the line of Investigation by exerting his Political Power and official capacity.

29) There are Five (5) Boro in the A.M.C. huge amount has been siphoned in the name of Central Boro and the Master Brain of such Six (6) Boro is Mayor himself. In the F.I.R. there is no mentioned about the Six (6) Boro or Central Boro and Mayor is totally silent over the matter. Moreover formation of Six (6) Boro is totally illegal and contradictory

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law as there are only Fifty (50) numbers of councilors/wards in the Asansol Municipal Corporation and one Boro consist of Ten (10) numbers of councilors.

30) Thereafter the Police started a case being Asansol (S) P.S. case no. 240/13 dated. 23.05.2013 Section 420/409/465/467/468/471/120 B I.P.C. and the O/C entrusted the case for Investigation to S/I. Sri Biswanath Majumdar being the 2 nd Officer of Asansol (South) P.S. who got an order of remand from A.C.J.M. Court Asansol for 10 (ten) days but S.I. Sri Majumdar is not enquiring the case properly and till date he has not seize the CAG report from A.M.C. and also the papers and note sheet made by previous commissioner cum S.D.O. Smt. Shilpa Gouri Saria and the Accounts relating to expenses of environment since 2004 and the Audit report of A.M.C. Mr. Biswajit Majumdar is not also investigating the case in a right path on the contrary he is regularly visiting the office of The Mayor A.M.C. and consulting with him to find out the ways and means to save the Mayor i.e. Sri Tapas Banerjee and making consultation with such person i.e. the Mayor who has direct involvement in the matter of defalcation of huge corporation fund as he happened to be the passing officer of those fake and false bills and under no circumstances it can be said that Sri Tapas Banerjee The Mayor A.M.C. has no hand in the crime / defalcation of fund/money. The Chief Accountant Sri Shyama Prasad Mukherjee has also hand in the matter as he is also responsible to check & verify the Bills. There is also a financial Committee headed by Sri Tanmoy Ganguli and assisted by Sri Tapan Banerjee an Income Tax Practicesoners of Asansol Mr. Tapan Banerjee has also been included as financial advisor of B.C. College, Asansol by Mayor Sri Tapas Banerjee who is the president of B.C. College G.B. we from the action taken so far by the investigation officer Sri Biswanath Majumdar. We have every reason to believe that I/O, Sri Biswanath Majumdar shall not make proper investigation as a senior leader cum M.L.A. of Ruling Party is directly involved in the matter of defalcation and as such the proper course to find out the truth and to protect Govt. Money and Public Money is to entrust the investigation of the case to C.B.I.

31) Along with the three Musketeers to turn/make the A.M.C. a wholesale stealing three (3) officers namely (I)Sri Debabrata Chatterjee (Tax Department), (ii) Sri Sukumar Mukherjee (Engineering Department), (iii) Sri Sanjiv Mukherjee (Trade license section) are directly

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involved with the aforesaid Bosses of course the environment section a separate issue where Mayor and Officer Tapas Ghosh are involved.

32) That after the death of Binoy Sarkar Councilor of Ward No. 6 and also after death of Goutam Maji of Ward No. 47 no election has held even after the laps of two (2) years and The Mayor did not take any steps for holding the election in the aforesaid 2 (two) Wards and the entire money allotted to the aforesaid Wards were/are being spent by Mayor himself and as there is no councilor there is 2nd man to look after the genunity of the expenditure Moreover during the past 2 (two) years no development work has been done by the Mayor though bills were passed on several heads by the Mayor himself and there is massive corruption in connection with the expenses shown in the aforesaid two (2) Words.

33) Mr. Jitendra Tewari is occupying an E.C.L. quarter at ______________________ for years together which is not expected from the Chairman of A.M.C.

34) That recently during the visit of Minister of Municipal Affairs on 13.05.2013 some Councilors of Asansol Municipal Corporation raised some objection regarding the allotment of job without Tender and also Tendering at high rate to some favorable contractors and also pointed out about detection of High rate malpractice and defalcation of Money in Environment Dept. by Smt. Shilpa Gouri Saria the Commissioner of A.M.C. cum S.D.O. Asansol but the Minister did not make any comments rather at the request of the Mayor Sri Tapas Banerjee and Chairman Sri Jitendra Tewari the commissioner, Shilpa Gouri Saria was transferred from Asansol within 3 (three) days from such visit of Minister and such quick transfer have raised eye brows of several leaders and public of Asansol. The Mayor & Chairman raised bogus allegation against the commissioner Smt Shilpa Gouri Saria that she is obstructing the development work of Asansol but as she being a Chartered Accountant found out/detected searease of malpractice and defalcation by the Money at A.M.C. and checked the siphoning of money the Mayor and his associates.

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35) Be it mentioned that Sri Jitendra Tewari Chairman is also the Union leader of Safaiwalas of A.M.C. and he has/had hand in the matter of defalcation as payment were being made to the Safaiwalas / sweeper the leaders of which had/has daily interaction with the Chairman. A letter from the Dept. Secretary was also sent to the Chairman A.M.C. when the Mayor and commissioner were not giving any answer to the queries made in the Application under R. T. I. Act and for a which the Chairman Jitendra Tewari is supporting the Mayor blindly and he is one of the person behind the defalcation with the Mayor and Officer Sri Tapas Ghosh.

36) That besides the malpractice in environmental department the following queries were made to unearth the major illegality, and defalcation or siphoning of Fund of A.M.C. but not answered to the provision R. T.I application The information required are as follows:

(i)

Details of Issuance of work orders since June 2009 to December 2012 valuing above 50,000/- (fifty thousand only) without floating any tender and to disclose the names of contractors and value of such work order against each work order.

(ii)

Details of Passing of bills in the name of Akhil Udyog without performing any repairing work, within Ward No. 13.

(iii)

Reason of Non taking of any legal steps against illegal construct of Parbati Shopping Arcade where a hotel named Parbati International situated covering the side land of G.T. Road, situated Opposite to Gupta College (Formerly R.K. Mission School) Asansol.

(iv)

Whether any Trade license has been given to open any Restaurant within Parbati Shopping Complex/ Parbati Shopping Arcade in the 2012 2013.

(v)

What is the name of the said Restaurant and name of the owner or partner of said Hotel?

(vi)

Whether any trade license has been given to open any Restaurant within Parbati shopping complex / Parbati shopping Arcade to the year 2012-2013

(vii)

What is the name of the said restaurant and name of the owner of partner of said Hotel?

(viii)

Reason of Passing of disputed bills amounting to Rs. 26 crores in respect of construction of houses / flats numbering about 1056 at Chandmari, Asansol

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within Ward No. 30 under B.S.U.P. Scheme,(a central board scheme) without any sanction of the Board of councilors of A.M.C. pending reports from Engineer under Municipal Department Government of West Bengal. (ix) Reason Passing of disputed bills of huge amount (more then 50 lacks) in respect of Water Treatment Plant at Kalajharia, Burnpur in a hot hest without any sanction of Board of A.M.C. (x) Name of the contractors against Allotment of electrical maintenance job at some main roads of Asansol such as G.T. Road, S.B. Gorai Road, Sen Relay Road Hutton Road, Court Road, Dhadka Road, etc since August 2009 to August 2012. (xi) Give Details of allotment of huge money in slum areas in the Wards of Congress /CPM councilor who are old friends of the Mayor of A.M.C (xii) Give details of Allotment of parking zones without any Tender with the name of respective allotted persons and his/her address. (xiii) Reason of Conversation of a child health centre into a shelter for homeless persons during night hours situated in at New Ghusik under Ward No. 20 in the Benami of some relatives. (xiv) How much amount has been allotted per annum look after said night shelter to homeless persons to the concerned N.G.O. for the said night shelter? (xv) (xvi) What is the name and address of the said N.G.O.? Who are the beneficiaries of the said N.G.O.?

(xvii) To give particulars details of allotment of 2 (two) auditoriums / halls i.e. Rabindra Bhavan at Asansol & Sampriti Hall at Burnpur at a lower rate charge of Rs. 1000/- (Rupees one thousand) below Rs. 1,500/- per day with the name and address of allottees and the dated and number of money receipts. (xviii) What are the actual/normal charge / rent for the aforesaid two halls per day? (xix) How much money has been spent for construction of houses over E.C.L. Land at Damra under Ward No. 35? (xx) Whether the corporation has title or lease over the said land when construction has been made within Ward No. 35? (xxi) In how many cases the work started without any tender and also name the value of such work orders along with the name of the contractors since August 2009 till Dec 2012

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(xxii) What is Tender value for White Washing / Colouring of Corporation Building and what is the name of the contractor for such work. In which paper and on which does the advertisement seeking Tender has been published. (xxiii) How much money has been paid for Hindi Academy and under whose supervision the money has been spent. (xxiv) How much amount has been spent for Nazrul Park constructed in front of Gupta College (formally old R.K. Mission School) as G.T. Road, Asansol. (xxv) What is the name & address of the contractor? Who was allotted with the job of NAZRUL Park please give the name the persons who are members of finance committee of Asansol Municipal Corporation Do- of B.C. College Asansol? (xxvi) Whether the Mayor Sri Tapas Banerjee 15th President of B.C. College G.B. or not? (xxvii) On which date the commissioner Smt. Shilpa Gouri Saria ordered to pay the salary to sweeper/ garbage cleaner through bank? Please give the name of the Bank where the account of sweeper/ contract labour / garbage cleaner has been opened. (xxviii) How much bills amount was being paid in the sweeper salary or Garbage cleaning was being paid per month since June 2009 to February 2013. (xxix) When the bill for March to April 2013 to was submitted. When the bill for March to April? (xxx) When the F.I.R. has been lodged against Tapas Ghosh? (xxxi) When the transfer order of Silpa Gouri Saria has been passed. (xxxii) How much amount of money have been spent in Ward No. 6 and 47 for 20102011, 2011-2012 and 2012 to 2013 please give the Details of Work order above Rs 50,000/-(fifty thousand )only including the name and address of the Contractor. (xxxiii) Please give the name the person who supervises the work in Ward No. 6 and 47 after the death of the respective ward commissioner. (xxxiv) Please give the name who passed the bills against the work order in the above said two Wards. (xxxv) Whether there is any Boro named Central Boro in the M.I.C. (xxxvi) It any Bill has been passed of the name of such Boro please let us know the amount disbursed in the name of Central Boro.

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We, therefore, request your good-self to save the A.M.C. and to save the public money and people of Asansol from huge corruption within Asansol Municipal Corporation and kindly entrust the matter to C.B.I. without any further delay.

Hope after considering the gravity of the case, your good-self will not hesitate to take strong steps in the matter and oblige.

Thanking you

Yours faithfully

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Correction Copy :Be it mentioned that Mayor is the final authority for payment of bills. In every bills other that the bills of environment Dept./Section it routed through the concerned councilor engineer, Boro Chairman but surprisingly all the bills of Environment Dept. were directly placed before the Mayor by the officer and he passed all the bills for payment to the cash section and there by the Mayor not only has collusion with Mr. Ghosh in making payment of the false bill but

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also the misused his official capacity to get the bill passed and making payment of false bills therefore the Mayor not only deserves expulsion from the Post but also legal conviction. Several letters/Application under R.T.I. Act were given to the Mayor and previous commissioner cum ADM Asansol Mr. Jayanta Kumar Aikat (WBCS) but none of the queries were answered by them And ultimately Mr. Aikat invited the Applicant vide his letter dated. 05.11.2012 to inspect the Municipal Record himself on 16.10.2012 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. and thereafter vide another letter dated 18.12.2012 from 11a.m. to 3 p.m. on 26.12,2012 which is not only contrary to RTI Act but also humanly impossible and there by both the Mayor as well as the Commissioner avoided to give any single answer inspite of letter of Deputy Secretary & SPIO Dept. of Municipal Affairs dated 12.11.2012 & 07.01.2013 and letter of Finance officer & State Public Information Officer W.B. Information Commission dated 12.07.2012 to the State Public Information Officer Asansol Municipal Corporation Asansol. In letter dated ________ the commissioner asked the Application Sri Biren Mukherjee to give the more specific queries and accordingly vide letter dated. __________ Sri Biren

Mukherjee made his queries more specific consisting of ______ in numbers but no answer was given to the said Applicant and such act of avoiding and deliberately violating the R.T.I. Act further proves that Mayor is not only a felicitator but also directly involved in corruption not only by passing false/fake bills of environment Dept. but also in the matter of passing of old disputed bill of Chand Mari BUSP housing Project and Kalajharia water treatment at Burnpur Plant and issuing high rate work orders without seeking any open Tender and passing of fake bills to favorite parties without any work/job done by him. In fact not a single leaf moves in the A.M.C. without the consent knowledge and consent of Mr. Tapas Banerjee the 1st citizen of Asansol Corporation Area and it is Silpa Gouri Saria Chairman cum S.D.O. Asansol being a Chattered Account pore water in the fire of corruption

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set by Mr. Tapas Banerjee the Mayor A.M.C. and instate of awarding her for such detection she site has been transferred immediately after the visit of Municipal Minister Mr. Firhad Hakim and managed to get a declaration of Mr. Tapas Ghosh after confining him in the office of the chairman Mr. Jitendra Tewari and such confidential statement in writing before the investigation by Police further proves the involvement of Sri Tapas Banerjee & his associates. Moreover on the date of production in Court on 24.05.2012but Mr. Tapas Ghosh was barricaded by S/I Biswanath Majumdar the 2nd officer of Asansol (S) P.S. and his associate Police men so that Mr. Tapas Ghosh Can not speak to any persons who may advising Mr. Ghosh to make a statement U/s. 164 Cr. P.C. Now Mayor of A.M.C. to save his skin making statement before the Prints & Electronic media that it is him the Mayor who detected the corruption and making Tapas Ghosh the officers as escape Goat. And pressuring the Police to charge Mr. Ghosh and any how save him by exerting his official capacity and as such without the removal of the Mayor from the Post no imperials Enquiry can be made the case should be transferred to C.B.I. as such.