Owner of Vichare Couriers booked for cheating 600 employees of Rs 4.71 cr PF money
The company was founded in December 1996, and as per its website, it has over 43 service centres and more than 600 employees, with a registered office in Charkop, Kandivali (West).
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Provident Fund inspector Sneha Kulkarni, 53, on Friday evening, filed a police complaint against the founder and directors of Vichare Express and Logistics Private Ltd, Mahendra Vinayak Vichare, Chandrakant Vasant Vichare and Avinash Shirke. (Representational Image)Mumbai’s Charkop police have booked the owner of the city’s popular courier and logistics service provider, Vichare Couriers, for an alleged Rs 4.71 crore provident fund fraud. The company’s three accused founder and directors allegedly deducted money from salaries of employees but did not deposit it with the provident fund office. The Charkop police are investigating the matter.
Provident Fund inspector Sneha Kulkarni, 53, on Friday evening, filed a police complaint against the founder and directors of Vichare Express and Logistics Private Ltd, Mahendra Vinayak Vichare, Chandrakant Vasant Vichare and Avinash Shirke.
The company was founded in December 1996, and as per its website, it has over 43 service centres and more than 600 employees, with a registered office in Charkop, Kandivali (West).
As per Kulkarni’s statement to the police, the three accused founders and directors of Vichare couriers, between November 2020–22, deducted Rs 4.71 crore towards PF from their employees’ salaries but did not deposit the money with the PF office. “They allegedly siphoned off this money and used it for wrongful gains. They cheated their employees as well as the provident fund office,” Kulkarni states in the FIR. Hence, the PF office has filed a complaint against the three accused.
The irregularities surfaced during an inquiry by the PF office, sources said. After a preliminary probe, the Charkop police registered a case under sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating), and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code against Mahendra Vichare, Chandrakant Vichare, and Avinash Shirke on Friday evening.
“We have registered a case, and no arrests have been made as yet. Documents pertaining to the case are being analysed, the investigation is underway,” said a Charkop police officer.
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