New Delhi: A sub-Postmaster, who handles mostly poor people’s hard-earned money, has allegedly siphoned off funds thereby causing loss to the exchequer. The CBI has registered a case in what appears to be first-of-its-kind modus operandi against the sub-Postmaster of Govindpuri Modinagar of Ghaziabad, and a postal agent of the Head Post Office, Ghaziabad, apart from some other individuals.
CBI sources said that then sub—Postmaster Rajeev Shankar allegedly siphoned off several lakhs during system transfer from manual to computerised in his post-office in just two days in January 2015.
“Using forged documents, around 61 already closed accounts were allegedly reopened at Ghaziabad post office on different dates by making fake deposit entries by data entry technically only in the system under the supervision of the accused public servants. Some of these accounts had lakhs of rupees. Then, in connivance with other officials and some individuals, the accused withdrew all the money from these accounts,” sources said.
Probably, in a bid to evade detection, he got at least 26 of the 61 accounts closed on different dates using forged documents, when the system got completely computerised, they added. The accused again withdrew these amounts with the connivance of the officials and private persons, thus causing loss to the exchequer, they said.
The CBI has registered a case against Rajeev Shankar, Mohan Singh (the then postal agent of the Head Post Office of Ghazaibad), Deepak Garg and other unidentified persons.
“The agency sleuths will soon seek evidence from the organisation which transferred the system from manual to computerised in the post office,” sources said.
