FIR lodged against SFC official in Buxar

Kumar Rajiv Nayan

Buxar : District Manager (DM), Buxar, State Food Corporation (SFC), Arvind Kumar on May 6, 2017, lodged a named FIR with Buxar Town Police Station against a former Assistant Manager (AM), SFC, Buxar, Shashi Bhushan, for allegedly misappropriating foodgrains worth about Rs 94 lakh from the SFC godown.

SFC DM Arvind Kumar said that the matter was related to financial year 2014-2015. Assistant manager, SFC, Shashi Bhushan was transferred to Muzzaffapur in 2015 and Ajit Kumar was posted here in his place but Shashi Bhushan did not hand over the charge of the godown despite several correspondences. When the high officials decided to give the charge of the godown to Ajit Kumar on their own, it was detected that 2,060 quintal of rice and 2,344 quintal of wheat worth about Rs 94 lakh were missing from the SFC godown.