: A professor of the city-based National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRD & PR) has been suspended for allegedly misappropriating funds.
NIRD & PR Director General W R Reddy said in a release that a serious complaint of financial misappropriation "committed" by EV Prakash Rao regarding conduct of training programmes at institute's centre in Patna was received through the CBl by it.
He was placed under suspension on September 24.
Prakash Rao was posted at Patna in 2008 and conducted training up to February 2015, the release said.
"A preliminary inquiry conducted by the institute, prima facie established that Prakash Rao while conducting training at Patna, abused his official position to fudge records and created bogus documents to siphon government funds on a large scale for wrongful personal gain," Reddy said in the release.
Hence, Prakash Rao has been placed undersuspension with immediate effect, it said.
According to the release,during the period this order remains in force, the headquarters of Prakash Rao shall be Hyderabad and he shall not leave it.
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