Harsimrat Kaur Badal requests Social Justice Minister to recommend CBI inquiry into SC Scholarship scam
Union food processing industries minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal requested Union social justice and empowerment minister Thawar Chand Gehlot to recommend a CBI inquiry into the Rs 63 crore SC scholarship scam engineered by Punjab Scheduled Caste and Backward Classes minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot.
In a letter to Thawar Gehlot, Harsimrat Kaur said a CBI inquiry was necessary to recover the funds which had been embezzled at the instance of the Minister so that they could be disbursed to the genuine beneficiaries. She also requested that since the Congress government had clearly failed to distribute the SC scholarship funds in a bonafide manner to the beneficiaries, the centre may take over this responsibility pending an inquiry into the case.
Harsimrat Badal while requesting the Social Justice and Empowerment minister to forward the case to the Home ministry for the institution of a CBI inquiry, said aside from the criminal offense the scam amounted to committing an atrocity against the scheduled caste community of Punjab. She said the scamsters were also playing with the future of Dalit students of the state.