Case against Bihar CM, Dy CM & 5 IAS officers

NEW DELHI: It seems Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is having tough times ahead after Patna faced worst ever flood like situation due to incessant rainfall.

After facing the ire of residents of Patna, the Chief Minister is in fresh legal dock as a complaint case has been filed against nine persons, including Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, deputy Chief minister Sushil Modi, Patna mayor Sita Sahu and five IAS officials who have been accused of allegedly creating the manmade disaster in Patna and making people suffer in dangerous situation as part of “conspiracy, cheating, murder, criminal breach of trust, misuse of public money and negligence along with disobedience”.

The complaint has been filed by Patna High Court advocate Ram Sandesh Roy before the court of chief judicial magistrate, Patna on Thursday. In his complaint, Roy has expenditure details of the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) budget of Rs 4,428-crore for 2019-20, passed in March, in the eight months.

The Millennium Post is in possession of a copy of the complaint.

According to the complaint, the state capital was flooded due to non-maintenance of the old drainage and sewerage systems and 39 sumps houses in Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) area.

Roy further alleged that failure of government machinery, water logging badly affected the lives of people and loss of the private and government property worth more than Rs 100 crore.

Several localities between Patna and Danapur are badly affected because all systems of the state government and PMC totally failed to discharge water from affected areas. Even after a lapse of 18-20 days, waterlogging has not be removed from the affected areas.

"Since the Chief Minister is head of the state along with ministers and all departments and units are directly or indirectly governed by him. The PMC is also controlled and supervised by him. Even deputy CM, who also holds the charge of Finance Minister, and Urban Development and Housing Minister Suresh Kumar Sharma were directly related and responsible to the affairs of PMC," Roy stated in his complaint.

Roy in his complaint has also held that Mayor Sita Sahu, PMC Commissioner Amit Kumar Pandey, the then managing director of BUIDCO Amrendra Prasad Singh, then principal secretary of urban development, Chaitnya Prasad, former divisional commissioner and secretary of urban development Anand Kishore and DM Kumar Ravi responsible for the man-made disaster in Patna.