CBI files complaint over EPF misappropriation
SHILLONG: The Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) has registered as case against a city based contractor and two officials of NEIGRIHMS for their collision with him for allegedly defrauding on payment of Employees Provident Fund (EPF).
An official source said on Friday that the contractor, Teibor Pathaw from Mawlai, who runs various services and the supply of work force including nurses, technical and non technical staff to NEIGRIHMS, had come under the CBI scanner for not depositing the share of EPF of the employees appointed at the Institute to the Provident Fund Commissioner.
The CBI has included two functionaries of NEIGRIHMS in the FIR since they were the ones who cleared the bills worth around Rs.50 lakh as claimed by Pathaw, but the EPF amount was not deposited out of the cleared amount.
However, sources said Pathaw has challenged the FIR lodged by the CBI and filed a petition in the High Court of Meghalaya which is yet to be taken up by the Court.
In 2013, Pathaw had unsuccessfully contested the Assembly polls from Mawlai constituency as an Independent candidate.
Sources said that Pathaw besides being a contractor was also engaged in running a private security agency and other business ventures.
