A case of cheating involving Rs 30.52 lakhs has been registered with Civil lines police station.
The accused using fake signature had withdrawn the amount, police said on Monday.According to police Jagdish Singh Birdi a resident of Civil lines had registered a complaint in this connection. “Jagdish Singh runs a security agency 'Janbanj Guard and Allied Services'. In 2012 he left for Canada. However before leaving for Canada, he left behind some signatures on a plain paper and agency letter head with the Administrator of agency Kuldeep Chaturvedi who is also an accused in case,” said officer investigating the case.
Police further said that Chaturvedi later on increased the salary amount in payslips of agency employees while keeping Birid in the dark and withdrew aforementioned amount as salaries in the name of Vandana Chaturvedi, Sandeep Choubey, Kiran Choubey and Kumar. later on when the complainant returned back to India, he came to know about the embezzlement. Civil lines police has registered a case under Section 420, 467, 468, 471, 120(B) and 406 of Indian Penal Code along with Section 43, 66 of IT Act 2000 against the accused.