Tanners’ body files FIR against Dalmiya firm

KOLKATA: Calcutta Leather Complex Tanners’ Association has lodged an FIR against Jagmohan Dalmiya and four other directors of M L Dalmiya & Co. alleging fraud and cheating in the construction of Kolkata Leather Complex.
A case has been lodged against the company under sections 409, 420 and 34 of IPC.
The Supreme Court had ordered construction of KLC to shift tanneries from Tiljala-Topsia-Tangra belt after environmentalist M C Mehta moved the apex court in 1985.The project report on effluent transportation from the tanneries to the treatment plants at the complex were to be done as per the guidelines stipulated by United Nations. Non-corrosive and long-lasting HDPE pipelines were to be laid to transport the toxic effluents.
But, the tanners’ association recently found that there were no HDPE pipelines. Instead, brick sewer and RCC pipelines were found. A CAG report had earlier pointed to the anomaly.
“This is cheating and misappropriation of funds. Both the central and state governments contributed in equal proportions in the Rs 19.52-crore pipeline project. We filed a case against M L Dalmiya & Co. and its five directors, including Jagmohan Dalmiya, on April 13,” said association general secretary Imran Ahmed Khan. “Police visited the site to conduct a probe and turned the complaint into an FIR (no. 90/15),” he added.
IG-law and order of West Bengal Police Anuj Sharma confirmed that a case had been registered.