Receipt and Payment should have been recorded
Mr. Ratnakar, nephew of Late Sathya Sai Baba was reported to have said:
Blogger's views
How a 'most transparent' Trust would have handled the accounting of the Rs. 35 lacs sent in car and intercepted by Police?
A Transparent Trust would have recorded the receipt of the donations from the devotees for construction of the tomb, in its Cash/Bank Account on debit side. (The Sathya Sai Trust claims that it gets all its donations in the form of cheques. Ok, assuming that receiving cash is an exception, the receipt ought to have been recorded in its Cash Receipt Books.)
A payment by means of cheques should have then been made to the contractor building the tomb i.e. Shankar Narayana Consultancy, Bangalore. This Transparent Trust, instead, chose to directly send cash to the consultant. What prevented the Trust from issuing cheque to the Consultant?
A Contractor or a Construction Company usually do not have the nomenclature of a 'Consultant'. The Consultant might have been an Architectural Consultant.
The construction site of the tomb, apparently belongs to the Sathya Sai Trust. It would have then been appropriate for it to pay the construction costs, of course, by mobilising donations/funds from devotees. It implies that the Trust's role is not that of an intermediary. Why did it, then, act as an intermediary for remitting the funds, without entering into its books? Did the devotees object to remit their donations to the Trust and get due receipts for them? Why did they go for an off-the record transactions?
These questions, the Police should be able to break through in their investigation on cash handling.
Just as the Police cannot interfere into every issue of Private Organisations, they cannot avoid intervening or they cannot dilly-dally when huge amounts are under a state of exposure to pilferage and pillage. Prevention of crimes is as important as maintaining law and order.
The Police, now, have a more onerous task on their back-breaking workload. They have to make a thorough search of all the car numbers passing through the toll-towers around Puttaparti. They may have to scrutinise the CC TV Camera outputs of the vehicles going through the Toll Gates. The intercepted car in question (Car with Rs. 3.5 million) itself was said to have made many trips to Bengaluru. That means more cash might have been transported.
It is better that Police employ Private Detectives for tracing out the movements vehicles and probably cash. It will be better if Police announce some incentives/rewards for those who furnish information which will lead to more disclosures. The work-load is such , that the fatigued regular staff of the Police Department cannot handle it with tirelessness and briskness. The Senior Police Staff can guide the outsourced sleuths.
Won't we need a Sherlock Holmes?
"The Sathya Sai trust is the ’most transparent’ trust and we go by all statutory requirements."
Blogger's views
How a 'most transparent' Trust would have handled the accounting of the Rs. 35 lacs sent in car and intercepted by Police?
A Transparent Trust would have recorded the receipt of the donations from the devotees for construction of the tomb, in its Cash/Bank Account on debit side. (The Sathya Sai Trust claims that it gets all its donations in the form of cheques. Ok, assuming that receiving cash is an exception, the receipt ought to have been recorded in its Cash Receipt Books.)
A payment by means of cheques should have then been made to the contractor building the tomb i.e. Shankar Narayana Consultancy, Bangalore. This Transparent Trust, instead, chose to directly send cash to the consultant. What prevented the Trust from issuing cheque to the Consultant?
A Contractor or a Construction Company usually do not have the nomenclature of a 'Consultant'. The Consultant might have been an Architectural Consultant.
The construction site of the tomb, apparently belongs to the Sathya Sai Trust. It would have then been appropriate for it to pay the construction costs, of course, by mobilising donations/funds from devotees. It implies that the Trust's role is not that of an intermediary. Why did it, then, act as an intermediary for remitting the funds, without entering into its books? Did the devotees object to remit their donations to the Trust and get due receipts for them? Why did they go for an off-the record transactions?
These questions, the Police should be able to break through in their investigation on cash handling.
Just as the Police cannot interfere into every issue of Private Organisations, they cannot avoid intervening or they cannot dilly-dally when huge amounts are under a state of exposure to pilferage and pillage. Prevention of crimes is as important as maintaining law and order.
Waiting for a law-and-order situation to crop up and then wielding lathis on agitating devotees cannot be the task of an effective , efficient and successful police Organisation. Preventive Precautions become imperative. It is like closing the gates of a dam before the water escapes through the loopholes. Bringing the leaked water back after it escapes will need ten times more effort than a preventive measure. Besides, failures, lapses, lassitude and torpor can cause much embarrassment to the Police Deparment.
This does not mean that Police should act hastily.
The Police, now, have a more onerous task on their back-breaking workload. They have to make a thorough search of all the car numbers passing through the toll-towers around Puttaparti. They may have to scrutinise the CC TV Camera outputs of the vehicles going through the Toll Gates. The intercepted car in question (Car with Rs. 3.5 million) itself was said to have made many trips to Bengaluru. That means more cash might have been transported.
It is better that Police employ Private Detectives for tracing out the movements vehicles and probably cash. It will be better if Police announce some incentives/rewards for those who furnish information which will lead to more disclosures. The work-load is such , that the fatigued regular staff of the Police Department cannot handle it with tirelessness and briskness. The Senior Police Staff can guide the outsourced sleuths.
Won't we need a Sherlock Holmes?
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