Ludhiana: Locker of businessman operated a day after his arrest, CGST files police complaint

LUDHIANA: In a shocking incident, the

bank locker

of an accused of committing

bogus billing

, who is currently under judicial custody after being arrested by

central GST commissionerate

, Ludhiana has been operated while he was under arrest and department suspects that all the belongings which were stashed in this locker may have been taken out. In another mystery the locker which is in accused's name was operated day after his arrest by

CGST

and bank's entry register also had the signatures of the accused.

The

startling facts

emerged when, a team of CGST officials visited this private bank to examine this locker and check all the belongings inside which could be gold or cash or some documents about the assets of the accused, after this the locker was supposed to be sealed. After being summoned by CGST, bank officials have admitted allowing wife of the accused to operate the locker next day after he was arrested. A police complaint for FIR has been lodged by the CGST against the branch manager and the Assistant Manager for forgery, fraud, cheating and abetment to an offence invoking various sections of the Indian Penal Code.

Giving more information a reliable source in department said , "During the course of our investigation in the

Sahil Jain case

, which involves Rs. 393 crore fake invoices fraud, an appalling fact has come to the fore. It was learnt that on December 24th that the bank accounts and bank locker of accused in a private bank in

Sunder Nagar

, Ludhiana, was operated by the accused on November 12th , 12.15pm. This raised our eyebrows as this was because on November 11th Nov itself Jain was arrested by the department and sent to judicial same day. Jain is the main accused behind creating 23 bogus firms leading to a GST scam involving an ITC fraud of Rs. 33 crore."

Source also added, "Thereafter, the the branch manager and assistant manager of the Bank were summoned and their statements were recorded on December 24th , wherein they confessed that the Locker was infact operated by wife of Sahil Jain in the morning of December 12th and the branch manager admitted to have directed the assistant manager of the branch to allow her to operate the locker who made the entry and forged the signature of Sahil Jain in the Locker operation Register maintained in the bank on the directions of his branch Manager misleading the department that the locker was operated by Sahil Jain himself."

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