The Delhi Police has arrested its own constable in connection with alleged financial irregularities amounting to lakhs of rupees. Police said that the accused constable Anil Singh, who was posted in accounts department of the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) outer district office, had misappropriated House Rent Allowance (HRA) arrears of 24 constables to the tune of Rs 19.44 lakhs by getting the same transferred to the accounts of his wife by sending ECS instructions to Axis Bank in this regard.
According to a senior police official, Economic Offense Wing (EOW) had received several complaints of corruption in the DCP office of outer Delhi for quite some time following which three to four EOW teams raided the accounts section of the DCP office on Tuesday afternoon leading to pandemonium.
"A case under section 420,409,120 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered at EOW Police Station and the accused constable Anil Singh is arrested. Vigilance department has also been taken on board to investigate the case," said the police official.
"During interrogation, the accused Anil Singh, a resident of village Mukandpur in district Jhajjar of Haryana, revealed that the accused was involved in the loot of the arrears of their own colleagues. He have siphoned off about Rs 20 lakhs of the arrears of some 24 policemen. The arrested policeman got the loot money deposited in the private bank account of his wife," said the police official adding that further investigation is on.