nagpur more evidences have come to fore to make the case of bogus travel scam stronger the administration had released expenses worth rs 81632 after receiving signatures of four bigwigs that too on revenue stamps deputy municipal commissioner rizwan siddiqui had even confirmed that ruling party leader anil sole and the then chairman of standing committee pravin bhisikar were present in the programme after approval from finance department the general administration department issued cheque no 21054 on january 7 2010 the amount on the cheque was rs 81632 as per process the signatures of respective persons have to be taken on revenue stamp before releasing the amount accordingly the register comprising revenue stamps and details of cheque have the signatures of all four persons the then mayor maya iwnate anil sole pravin bhisikar and corporator mla krishna khopde on revenue stamps khopde told toi i have already told that i had not attended the programme i will not comment on the signature before seeing the register which has the signature he said the words were echoed by anil sole too on behalf of the administration siddiqui had attended the programme held on november 17 2009 he confirmed that only sole and bhisikar were present at the programme i was sitting with sole and i remember the event he said with confirmations from sole khopde iwnate and siddiqui it becomes clear that iwnate and khopde had not attended the programme then the question arises about the expenses of rs 40816 approved and withdrawn in the names of iwnate and khopde with signatures of all four on revenue stamps its apparent that all four had given their consent for the withdrawl what can be concluded is that either somebody has pocketed the amount or the signatures have been forged chairman of standing committee sandip joshi told toi that if such a thing has happened he would demand strict action against the person who had pocketed the amount in the names of mayor and mla i will submit a note to officiating municipal commissioner saurabh rao at 11 am on tuesday and demand enquiry i will demand that the report be filed within seven days he said opposition leader vikas thakre felt that it couldnt have been achieved without the involvement of the bigwigs of the ruling party an enquiry should be done followed by stringent action against the guilty fir should be registered against the guilty the cid should also conduct an enquiry he said senior congress corporator who was leading opposition group at that time praful gudadhe said i was not informed about any such invitation from the government there are many such irregularities done by ruling party earlier male corporators had gone to goa for a programme organized by child and women welfare department only women corporators were supposed to attend the programme how did mayor ask permission from municipal commissioner for taking khopde instead of the opposition leader slamming the ruling party ncp group leader vedprakash arya