Tribune News Service

Patiala, August 12

Over 10 days after registering a case of embezzlement, the police have issued a lookout notice against those accused of embezzling Punjabi University funds.

Earlier, the police registered a case against seven individuals, including one employee of Punjabi University. The case was registered after a number of fake bills related to the University Grants Commission surfaced on the campus. The university authorities dismissed one contractual employee and suspended two others when the matter surfaced.

The police, who have been making rounds of houses and hideout places of the suspects, said they had not made any arrests till now. The Urban Estate SHO, Ronnie Singh, said, “The police have issued a lookout notice against suspects. We are making efforts to trace all suspects.”

An investigation was initiated after the university authorities wrote to the police. In its letter the authorities stated that they had come across forged bills generated by Nishu Chaudhary and Jatinder Singh.

The bills were generated in names of many former students and others and passed by a university superintendent. Similar fake bills were generated in recent past, the authorities added. These bills were passed and cheques of amount running into lakhs were issued, the authorities stated in the letter.

During investigation the police found that the suspects had cheated the university.