New Delhi: It’s a case of financial embezzlement at the highest level.
The Economic Offences Wing of the Delhi Police today arrested Vikas Rana an Under Division Clerk working in the Prime Minister's office for allegedly transferring lakhs of rupees into his account from that of four former employees.
This had allegedly been happening since 2005 when the electronic clearance system was introduced in the PMO. A complaint regarding the same was filed by an undersecretary in the accounts department on January 13 this year.
Police officials scrutinised the salary bills of previous months and found out that Vikas had fraudulently prepared salary bills in the name of four ex-employees and continued to receive their salaries even after the concerned employees had left the PMO.
Sources say that an error in the computer-generated print out reflected the fraud.
The accused has been remanded to six days in police custody. Police officials still need to find out if other people were involved in the case.
But the question is how did such a fraud go completely undetected for four years? Government officials being corrupt is not new but that someone in the Prime Ministers office could be as audacious as Rana is shocking.
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