Most of the cooperative societies, formed by the Project Affected People (PAP), are cheating Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) of lakhs of rupees in the guise of looking after internal coal transportation work.
Project Officer of Lakhanpur Open cast mines Awadh Kishore Pandey has filed an FIR in Lakhanpur police station on behalf of the MCL after which, the police registered a case against Belpahar Transport Company Limited (BPCL) and arrested its chief executive Pramod Panda, who is now in judicial custody.
But, after the incident, the officials of more than 12 PAP societies, working in transportation of coal in Lakhanpur and Ib Coal fields, are apprehending action against them for cheating major funds of MCL through fake documents. They are now on an overdrive to come clean of the transactions made with the MCL.
