The Govindpura police have booked an employee of a construction company who escaped with Rs 5.53 lakh cash of the company on Tuesday.
A complaint was lodged with the Govindpura police by an employee Jyoti Sharma of the Trishul Infrastructure Company at Kasturba Nagar regarding Ramesh Jadhav who escaped with cash meant to be deposited in the bank on Tuesday.
The accused used to work with the company for the past two years and would deposit the money within an hour or two but on Tuesday he failed to return for long and later when he was contacted his mobile phone was found to be switched off. The company employees tried to search for the accused but failed to find him and later lodged a complaint with the Govindpura police.
Police found in the investigation that the accused used to live in a rented room at Kailash Nagar and hailed from Maharashtra. He used to work as office assistant and was working for the past two years. In the afternoon on Tuesday he was handed over Rs 5.53 lakh cash which was scheduled to be deposited at Central Bank of India TT Nagar branch but he never reached the bank and later it was found that he escaped with the money.
Based on the complaint after the preliminary investigation police have registered a case under section 408 of the IPC and have started further investigation.
Police said that other employees of the company would be questioned and mobile number of the accused would be investigated.