AURANGABAD: Jalna police have arrested a 59-year-old former employee of the State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) for allegedly usurping Rs 37.7 lakh from the credit society meant for Group-III SRPF jawans.
The accused has been identified as Bhaskar Achwar. On being produced before the court on Tuesday, he was remanded in six-day police custody. As per the audit report, the alleged usurping of funds took place between April 1, 2019 and March 31, 2020.
Sadar Bazaar police station’s senior inspector Sanjay Deshmukh said the accused was the secretary of the society when the alleged fraud took place. Things came to fore after Achwar retired from the service last year. An audit was carried out and the government appointed auditor for societies found that 48 pages detailing monetary transactions were missing from the records.
Accordingly, a show-cause notice was shot to Achwar. The accused has confessed to committing the alleged usurping and even submitted a bond paper, assuring to repay the amount to the society. Sensing trouble, Achwar reached out to the court and obtained anticipatory bail prior to the registration of the offence.
However, higher authorities took a serious cognisance of the alleged usurping and ordered registration of offence. Accordingly, auditor Sudhakar Patekar lodged a complaint with Sadar Bazaar police station and an offence under sections 406 (criminal breach of trust),420 (cheating), 468 (forgery), 471 (fraudulently using a forged document asgenuine), 201 (destruction of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered on February 9.
On being summoned by the police, the former jawan produced the copy of the anticipatory bail that the investigation officer challenged before the sessions court and it was immediately cancelled.