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| Indian aid money 'goes missing' |
| More than $3m donated to the Indian prime minister's fund for victims of the tsunami and the Kashmir earthquake have gone missing, court papers say.
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| INDIA
, 24-October-2007
5:13:25 AM |
| The hole in the accounts came to light through a legal petition filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
The man who filed the petition, Mujibur Rehman, argued that money raised for victims of disasters had been diverted or not yet deposited into the fund.
He argued that the money had instead been kept by Coal India Limited (CIL).
Mr Rehman works for the publicly-owned company. It has refused to comment on the case.
Various calamities
The petition alleges that money collected for the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, the 1999 Kargil war between India and Pakistan, the Orissa cyclone, the 2004 Asian tsunami and the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir has gone missing.
Mr Rehman, a chief laboratory technician with a subsidiary of CIL in the state of Chhatisgarh, sought information on the use of funds donated by employees for various calamities.
An investigation by the Indian prime minister's office, at the direction of the chief information commissioner, revealed that the money was never received.
Mujibur Rehman told the BBC that he, like thousands of other employees, had their day's wages deducted for donations to the national relief fund whenever a big national calamity took place.
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