Haryana: Two liquor contractors booked for Rs 1.35 crore license fee fraud

By- Amit Kumar
KARNAL: The Karnal police booked two liquor contractors for allegedly submitting fake bank receipts causing a financial loss of Rs 1.35 crore to the Excise and Taxation Department as licence fee.
The accused have been identified as Rishipal of Bir Bangra village in Kaithal district and Amit Kumar of Jyoti Nagar in Karnal city.
As per the official of the DETC department, both firms had wholesale and retail licences for the year 2021-22.
As per the FIR, the contractor Rishipal got generated two goods receiving notes (GRN) of Rs 20 lakhs and while accused Amit Kumar generated 10 GRN of Rs 1.15 crore.
On the complaint of the deputy excise and taxation commissioner, two separate FIRs have been registered under sections 420, 467, 468, and 471 of the Indian Penal Code at civil line police station.
RK Nain, DETC said that the matter reportedly came to light when Wipro, the service provider, checked the payment accounts of liquor contractors at the end of the year, under which the said amounts were not found received by the state treasury.
He said that during the preliminary investigation it was found that the contractor deposited fake receipts of licence fee for the month of January, February, and March (2021-22).
DETC Nain said, "We correspondence with the respective banks, which informed the department that the said payment could not be considered against the GRN numbers mentioned on the receipts. Which indicates that the receipts deposited by the contractors were fake. Subsequently, we approached the police and requested to investigate the matter."
He said that the license of both firms have already been ended on June 11 this year.