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The Haryana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has recovered Rs 3.65 crore and gold worth Rs 6.5 lakh from the residence of a retired Haryana Development and Panchayat department official.
The recovery comes after the ACB conducted a raid at the Panchkula residence of the official on Monday in connection with a scam worth Rs 50 crore and arrested the accused identified as Shamsher Singh, who retired on November 30 last year.
ACB officials said that currency notes were found in a bed and almirahs at Shamsher’s Panchkula Sector 28 house. To count the notes, two machines from the Punjab National Bank were used and it continued till Tuesday morning.
Shamsher along with an arrested official of the treasury office in Hodal (Panchkula) were produced before a court in Faridabad on Tuesday. On the request of the ACB, both accused have been sent to police remand till February 2.
The ACB had registered an FIR on January 24 this year against junior officials of Haryana Development and Panchayat department posted in Faridabad apart from a firm of outsourcing services under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and BNS.
An audit report of Comptroller of Auditor General (CAG) had earlier found that funds were disbursed to the Palwal District Development and Panchayat Officer for the financial year of 2023-24 and 2024-25 without approval of Chief Accounts Officer of the panchayat department.
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