Action on withdrawing pension amount by opening fake account
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Major action has been taken in the matter of transferring the amount of a pension worker of Siwan by opening a fake account in the head post office of Muzaffarpur district. After which now the police action has been intensified and in this case, Assistant Postal Superintendent Manish Kumar Rao has named Dinanath Sah, a then Deputy Post Master of the Head Post Office in the Town Police Station, along with Assistant Postmaster Savings Bank Suresh Kumar and Assistant Arvind Kumar as accused. Has gone. Manish Kumar Rao has stated in the FIR that these three postal employees fraudulently transferred the money to their account and then transferred it to another account and withdrew the money. This matter was found to be true in the departmental investigation of about 7 months, in which this amount was more than ten lakhs.
Deputy Postmaster’s ID attached to the open account and the account of the deceased
In the case, a savings bank account was opened in the name of Wasim Ansari in the Head Post Office on 16 August 2023 and with the connivance of the Postal Department employee, using the ID of the then Deputy Postmaster of the Postal Department, an account was opened on a person named Wasim. Gaya and then on the same day, after attaching the account to the pension account of deceased pensioner Makhan Ram of Head Post Office Siwan District, an amount of Rs 4 lakh 97 thousand 800 was illegally withdrawn from it.
After which again on September 19, 2023, an amount of Rs 4 lakh 95 thousand 641 was transferred from this account to Axis Bank account thrice on the same day through NEFT, in which case Tulsi Narayan, resident of Motijheel, Complaints about this matter were made from the Postal Department’s Senior Postal Superintendent, Post Master General to the Postal Director and Communications Minister. After this, on the instructions of the Senior Postal Department Officer, an investigation team was formed under the leadership of the Assistant Postal Superintendent, Eastern Subdivision, on behalf of the Senior Postal Superintendent. The investigation team wrote in its investigation report that on August 16, an account was opened in the head post office with the ID of Deputy Post Master Dinanath, which was also used to ID the postmaster of Assistant Postmaster Bachat Madhubani and after the investigation, the fraud came to light. All three accused employees were suspended, while accused Dinanath Sah had retired on October 31.
Police will arrest all the accused in the case
In the entire matter, SHO of Nagar Police Station Vijay Kumar Singh said that an FIR has been lodged against three people named by the Postal Department officer in the scam case at the Head Post Office located in Company Bagh of the Town area. In which three people including Postal Department official are included. There is a case of pension related scam, investigation has been done and FIR has been registered, further action is being taken.
