Bhubaneswar: July 13: State Labour department will issue show cause notice to Motilal Gouda, the arrested former assistant director of the Directorate of Factories and Boilers. The notice will be issued against Gouda under Rule-15 of OCS (CC&A) Rules, 1962. Crime Branch of Odisha Police has taken Gouda on a six-day remand after he was arrested by the Economic offence wing (EOW) of Crime Branch for allegedly causing a loss of Rs 63 lakhs to the Odisha Government by issuing a fake Gazette Notification.
Gouda issued fake notification in October, 2015 and asked industries in the State to get the health check-ups of their staff done at one of the five ’empanelled’ pathology laboratories. Based on this notification, he even managed to sign a contract with Navaratna PSU Nalco for Rs 63 lakh.
On November 17, 2015, the State government had removed 408 medical officers from government service for remaining ‘absent from duty for a long period unauthorisedly and willfully.’ Gouda’s name had appeared in the list.
