While a CBI probe is under way into the alleged misappropriation of funds to the tune of ₹300 crore during 2009-10 to 2015-16 in Karnataka State Open University (KSOU), the State Audit and Accounts Department has alleged that the varsity officials had failed to share the details of its transactions in a bank account during 2021-22 for auditing.
The office of the Principal Director, Karnataka State Audit and Accounts Department, in a letter dated October 16, 2023, to the Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Higher Education (Universities), Bengaluru, has sought suitable directions for the officials concerned in KSOU to provide the relevant records of information pertaining to its bank transactions of the period.
Based on a complaint by Parashurama M.L., a former member of the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR) that a sum of ₹21 lakh had been drawn from an account of KSOU in a private bank between December 18, 2021, to May 7, 2022, through several self-cheques for amounts ranging from ₹1 lakh to ₹5 lakh, the officials of State Audit and Accounts Department sought the details during the 2021-22 audit of accounts. However, the KSOU officials failed to provide any information or records of the same.
