Patna: Bihar State Co-operative Housing Federation (BSCHF) has filed a criminal case against two IAS officers and its four managers charging them with disbursing Rs 32 lakh as loan to a fake co-operative housing society.

The complainant, S K Jha, manager (recovery) of the federation on January 7, lodged the case with the Shastrinagar police station.

As per the first information report (FIR), C K Basu, the then administrator of the federation, Arun Jha, the then secretary, Manoj Kant Thakur (finance manager), Lok Nath Tiwari (manager, loan), Phulan Kumar Singh (manager, technical) and Gangadhar Mishra, deputy manager, loan, entered a criminal conspiracy and sanctioned a loan of Rs 32 lakh to Rangkarmi Sahkari Grih Nirmal Samiti on the basis of forged and fabricated documents in 1999.

This is the fourth such FIR lodged by the federation alleging that the federation authorities had entered criminal conspiracy with some housing co-operative societies sanctioning loan worth over Rs 14 crore on fake and forged documents during the past four to five years.

The fraud was detected when the present administrator of the federation, S S Verma, ordered a probe on the complaint that the housing societies had got disbursed loan fabricating and forging the documents for the purpose.

PTI