Ranchi Police have arrested a PHED employee, who allegedly embezzled Rs 20 crore from the urban water supply scheme from Sukhdev Nagar police station area. The name of the arrested accused is Santosh Kumar. Police have also recovered Rs 50 lakh 98 thousand 500 from the accused. The case relates to the drinking water and sanitation work in Ranchi from where he is accused of embezzlement of Rs 20 crore.
According to the information, an FIR was lodged against Santosh in Sadar police station of Ranchi on charges of embezzlement of several crores of rupees. After which, while taking action in the case, police arrested the accused Santosh Kumar from Sukhdev Nagar police station area.
Police have also recovered Rs 50 lakh at the behest of the accused. Along with this, while freezing the bank account of the accused, the police have also seized an amount of more than Rs 4 crore.
In the year 2012, the Drinking Water Department had given the work of laying pipelines in Ranchi to L&T Company. It was worth around Rs 200 crore. The company stopped the work midway. After this some people of the department hatched a conspiracy. Fake bills were again made in exchange for the work done. Fake signatures of the concerned people were put on it. They got the payment made to L&T again.
For the first time, Rs 1.32 crore were withdrawn from the treasury in the year 2019, Rs 6 crore in the year 2022 and Rs 14 crore in June 2023. This money was deposited in more than 15 accounts in SBI, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Bank of India. This continued for a long time. In June 2023 Chandrashekhar came there to the post of Executive Engineer. A cheque of Rs 60 crore was also deposited in the treasury with the signature of the officer. Rs 14 crores were also withdrawn. This came to light when the matter came to the department for investigation. Then an FIR was lodged.
