2 hypermarket staff booked for cheating store of Rs 23 lakh

Vadodara: Store manager and an information technology officer of a hypermarket in Gotri were booked for siphoning off store’s stock and money worth Rs 23 lakh.
The accused Raju Singh Rajpurohit and Kailashkumar Meghwal came under the scanner after the company owning Osia Hypermarket on Gotri-Sevasi Road conducted an audit.
According to police, Rajpurohit, the store manager, had ordered stock worth Rs 20.8 lakh from different companies for the store between February 16, 2016 and February 3 this year and kept them in the store’s warehouse. The payment for the stock was done by the company.
The audit revealed that Rajpurohit along with Meghwal used to switch off the CCTV cameras of the store and warehouse to siphon off the stock for their personal use or to sell them illegally. It also came to light during the probe that Rajpurohit had not paid salaries amounting to Rs 1.3 lakh to the employees of the store. Rajpurohit also deposited the rent amount of Rs 70,000 paid by a jewellery seller and batter seller in his personal account and did not pay Rs 25,000 to a vendor.
The audit was conducted after Rajpurohit left his job in July this year after a complaint was filed with Gotri police station againt him for allegedly molesting an employee of the store. He was arrested in the molestation case and sent to judicial custody.