Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI: The Assistant Commissioner-cum-Executive Magistrate, Kamrup (Metro) district, has sought financial details from the around 300-year-old Athgaon Kabarsthan Committee without delay.
The Assistant Commissioner-cum-Executive Magistrate has sought all these in connection with a writ petition (WP-C 3410/2024) filed in the Gauhati High Court.
The financial details that the Assistant Commissioner-cum-Executive Magistrate has sought from the Kabarsthan committee are– all financial documents of the kabarsthan, the total number of shopkeepers under the kabarsthan committee, the total number of shopkeepers paying rent to the committee, directly and through the court, the total amount of monthly house rent deposits, monthly expenses, etc.
When contacted, the office-bearers of the committee said that 39 of the 112 shopkeepers deposit their rentals to the committee through the court, and the rest of the shopkeepers pay rentals directly to the committee. They further said that the committee collects around Rs 2.21 lakh as rental from the shopkeepers.
On expenditure of the kabarsthan under the committee, the office-bearers said that the work-wise expenditure register of the committee was not maintained in many works by the former committee that had allegations of overwithdrawal of funds. They said that an FIR has been filed against the alleged withdrawal of funds at the Bharalumukh Police Station. The charge sheet submitted by the Bharalumukh police to the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup (M) has mentioned anomalies in the withdrawal of funds by the former committee. According to the office-bearers, the constitution of the kabarsthan committee does not permit the president to withdraw more than Rs 3,100 in one day and the general secretary to withdraw not more than Rs 3,000 in one day. However, on October 30 and 31, 2019, and on January 3 and 4, 2020, the former committee withdrew Rs 29 lakh from the bank, the office-bearers said.
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