LUCKNOW: The
home guards
wages
scam
in Lucknow is getting bigger as the ongoing probe being conducted by Gomtinagar police has revealed that the missing company commander
Sushil Singh and platoon commander were also hand in glove with arrested district commandant Kripa Shanker Pandey and were sharing the spoils.
The scrutiny of documents seized from the district office of home guard at Maqdoompur have revealed several anomalies and police officials, who had detected misappropriation of Rs five lakhs each at Gudamba and Vibhutikhand police stations in July and August, are now probing home guards' deployment at the two stations since 2017.
Officials said muster rolls of nine more police stations are also under scrutiny.
Senior police officers said muster rolls of Chinhat, BKT, Itaunja, Kakori,
Malihabad
, Nagram, Maal, Nigohan and Gosainganj police stations are under scanner. "All these police stations were under company commander Sushil Singh who is absconding. A team has been set up under SP (north) Amit Kumar to nab him along with platoon commander," said an officer privy to the probe.
Sources said the documents recovered in raids also reveal the involvement of three subordinates of district commandant Kripa Shankar. They also did not rule out possibility of documents being tampered by the staff.
A five-member team has also been constituted to record statements of the workers of home guard district office in Gomtinagar.
The documents were seized in raids after the arrest of district commandant of home guards, Lucknow, Kripa Shankar Pandey, by Gomtinagar police on Thursday.
Pandey is accused of fraudulently withdrawing wages of home guards by showing inflated figures of their deployment at two police stations in the state capital in July and August, causing a loss of Rs 10 lakh to the state exchequer.
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