Bhagalpur, Aug. 20: A special investigation team (SIT) has sought the list of employee details in government departments of the past 10 years.

The SIT has put more than 100 government employees, including more than half-a-dozen IAS officers (district magistrates), deputy development commissioners (DDCs), other officers and government employees on its radar.

The establishment department of the collectorate has asked the district rural development agency,the zila parishad, the welfare department, the district urban development authority, the Bhagalpur Central Co-operative Bank, the district nazarat and the district land acquisition office to send the list of employees.

Parking of government funds in NGO Srijan had started in 2000 as the accounts of 12 blocks (out of 16) used to operate from it but the SIT has laid emphasis from 2007 onwards when the maximum transaction of huge amounts purportedly took place.

Investigations have revealed that the former secretary of Bihar state cooperative department, Amitav Verma (2002-03), had played an important role to provide maximum help to late Manorama Devi of Srijan Mahila Vikas Sahyog Samiti Ltd, while setting aside norms and regulations.

The SIT has started collecting evidence such as how Verma managed to make Manorama, the director of Bihar State Cooperative Bank. During 1988-2003, the Bihar government had seized powers of cooperative banks and had put a stay on the general election for a post in cooperative banks.

But Verma had managed to make Manorama the director during that time.

In 2003, the government lifted the ban for conducting elections to the cooperative banks. In the course of the elections for the post of delegates, Manorama was defeated. As per the norms, after her defeat, she should have left the post. According to sources, the then managing director of Bhagalpur Central Cooperative Bank, Kavindra Thakur, said to be a close associate of Verma, did not send the list of delegates who won the election in the state cooperative department, Patna, and helped Manorama secure the post as director for the next five consecutive years.

"We have many evidence of how Manorama during her tenure as director, made it easy to develop relations in the power lobby in the state headquarters and with active patronage of officers like Verma established the racket in Bhagalpur," the source added.

The SIT reportedly started finding out the missing links of how Manorama and her associates managed to establish Srijan NGO as a bank despite the fact that it never had any licence from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

"Huge transactions were being carried out smoothly while violating the basic norms of the RBI but not a single officer concerned here noticed it," said a source.

Earlier observers raised doubts about the mode of investigation by the SIT as it was apparently focusing on the illegal money transactions from 2007-2014 mainly. The drainage of government money should be investigated but it is important to reach to the roots of the scam. "How did the Srijan NGO dared to start functioning as a bank here," the observers said.