Chandigarh, March 31 The Haryana State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested another person on Tuesday in connection with the alleged discrepancies in the fixed deposit receipts of the Panchkula Municipal Corporation, amounting to nearly Rs 150 crore, at a Kotak Mahindra Bank branch.
The arrested individual, Kapil, a resident of Rajpura in Punjab and an acquaintance of co-accused Rajat Dahra, who is in police custody, was apprehended from Sirhind, according to an official statement.
The statement said that Rs 2.36 crore was transferred to Kapil's bank account from the Panchkula Municipal Corporation's account.
The municipal corporation had claimed a multi-crore mismatch between its official records and the balance reflected in Kotak Mahindra Bank's Panchkula branch.
According to the Panchkula Municipal Commissioner, the discrepancies detected in the fixed deposit receipts amounted to Rs 150 crore.
The Haryana State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (SVACB) had earlier arrested Dileep Kumar Raghav, who was the relationship manager in the bank at the time of the offence, and another man, Rajat Dahra, in the case.
Preliminary investigation revealed that Raghav conspired with others and sent false reports to the Panchkula Municipal Corporation regarding its fixed deposits, resulting in serious discrepancies in the records.
The SVACB had filed an FIR after the Haryana government transferred the case to it.
The case, registered at the Anti-Corruption Bureau police station in Panchkula, pertains to Sections 316(5) (criminal breach of trust), 318(4) (cheating), 336(3) (forgery), 338 (forgery of valuable security, will, etc.), 340 (forged document or electronic record), and 61 (criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and to Sections 13(2) and 13(1)(a) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.