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Unable to find 310 engineers who worked with the erstwhile Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike erstwhile the fake billing scam surfaced, the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) has issued a nationalist announcement asking them to cod authoritative notices successful idiosyncratic and respond wrong 15 days.
The engineers had served successful the BBMP’s engineering helping successful Gandhinagar, Malleswaram and Rajarajeshwari Nagar (RR Nagar) zones betwixt 2008-09 and 2011-12, erstwhile civic works successful the 3 zones aboriginal came nether scrutiny implicit allegations that fake oregon inflated bills had been cleared for works that were either not afloat executed oregon showed discrepancies connected the ground.
Authorities said notices sent to them could not beryllium served arsenic their addresses were not traceable. Officials said galore of them had been connected deputation astatine the clip and were aboriginal transferred to different departments, making it hard to find them now.
During the mentioned years, engineers had signed measurement bills, prime power reports and third-party audit documents that enabled the merchandise of ₹118.26 crore to Karnataka Rural Infrastructure Development Limited (KRIDL), which had been entrusted with carrying retired the works. The irregularities were examined by a committee headed by retired justice H.N. Nagamohan Das, which aboriginal recommended enactment against officials linked to the projects.
