DEHRADUN: Day after it emerged that Uttarakhand government officials on relief work during the 2013 flash floods submitted inflated bills and gorged on gulab jamuns and mutton chops as lakhs went hungry, chief minister Harish Rawat ordered a probe into the alleged misappropriation of funds to the tune of Rs 100 crore."I have asked chief secretary N Ravi Shankar to corroborate the authenticity of these bills and submit the findings of the report within two weeks. It should be probed if the funds meant for repair and restoration of the districts hit by the catastrophe were misappropriated," Rawat told TOI on Saturday.On Friday, state information commissioner Anil Sharma had shot off a letter to the CM demanding a CBI probe into alleged irregularities committed during the time of the Congress government headed by then CM Vijay Bahuguna. The former CM, however, dismissed the allegations against his government as baseless and said, "I do not have any problem in facing any inquiry."In a 12-page order, passed last week after hearing complainant Bhupendra Kumar of National Action Forum for Social Justice, Sharma had taken note of bills provided by various districts in response to RTI queries seeking details of funds spent on relief work in the aftermath of the tragedy that claimed more than 3,000 lives, with many still missing. Records provided by the authorities showed that some of the "relief work" began on December 28, 2013, a good five months after the tragedy struck the hill state in June 2013.Citing over 200 pages of records received from authorities in response to his RTI petitions, Kumar had claimed during the hearing at State Information Commission that while people starved without a roof overtheir head, officials in worst-affected Rudraprayag district claimed Rs 250 for breakfast, Rs 300 for lunch and Rs 350 for dinner, totalling Rs 900 per day, apart from hotel stay that cost Rs 6,750 per night.Kumar had alleged that total expenditure per officer per day hovered around Rs 7,000, as they savoured mutton chops, chicken, milk and cottage cheese in the course of their hotel stay supervising relief efforts. He questioned the "obscene expenses".Claiming that the records showed diesel bills of 30 litres and 15 litres for vehicles bearing registration numbers of scooters, motorcycles and three-wheelers, which run on petrol, Kumar also provided records to show that Rs 98 lakh worth of fuel bills for four days had been cleared for a helicopter company.Expressing his happiness at the CM's order for a probe, Nanak Chand, chairman of the Dehradun-based National Action Forum for Social Justice, said, "This clearly means that the officials cleared their old bills in the name of relief and rescue work. Our forum welcomes the state government's decision of ordering a probe."