Ex-Bhagalpur DM named in Srijan case

PATNA: The CBI filed a supplementary chargesheet in the Srijan scam case against 10 people, including former Bhagalpur DM Virendra Yadav, before a special court in Patna on Wednesday.
The scam, which was handed over to the CBI for probe in 2017, is related to the transfer of around Rs 2,000 crore from several government bank accounts in Bhagalpur and others districts to accounts of an NGO Srijan Mahila Vikash Sahyog Samiti.
Sources said Yadav is the first IAS officer whose name surfaced officially so far after the case was handed over to the federal agency by the Nitish Kumar government. Initially, the scam was being probed by the economic offences unit of the state police.
CBI spokesperson RK Gaur said it’s a supplementary chargesheet in which Yadav has been named as an accused. Yadav, a 2004 batch Bihar cadre IAS officer, is currently posted as special secretary in the backward class and extremely backward class welfare department.
CBI sources said Yadav was posted as Bhagalpur DM for little over a year. “He was posted there as DM in the middle of 2014. It was during this period that the maximum amount of money was siphoned off from the bank account to the district land acquisition office,” CBI sources said, adding, more than Rs 300 crore was siphoned off into Srijan’s account from the land acquisition office’s bank account.