The Anti-Corruption Wing of Central Bureau of Investigation registered a case against three employees of Jhansi general post office (GPO) for tampering with documents and illegally replacing banned notes of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 with Rs 100 notes.
As per reports, during a scrutiny of currency notes at the GPO, Jhansi, it came to light Rs 21.88 lakh ( in banned currency notes of Rs 1000 and Rs 500) exceeded the total banned currency notes collected till the last day for replacement last year.
The officials informed their seniors after which a message was passed on to Central Bureau of Investigation. During preliminary probe, the CBI found the involvement of three post office employees. It surfaced that whitener was used to raise the figure of changed currency in official records and later the banned notes were replaced with new currency.
After the disclosure, CBI Anti-Corruption Unit in lucknow registered a case in this regard and named Cashier Puran lal Ahirwar, Deputy Postmaster AK Sandil and the systems in-charge of the Jhansi GPO.
Inspector, Asheesh Kumar is probing the matter further and would soon collect documents related to the incident.