Cheating case against two octroi officers

Meanwhile, acting on the Jagtap8217;s separate complaint to him, Additional Municipal Commissioner Deepak Kapoor has constituted a three-member committee to probe the matter. The committee has been directed to submit its report within a fortnight.

In his complaint lodged at the police station, Jagtap has alleged that the quadruple forged several documents in order to evade the duty on some pre-recorded audio cassettes manufactured by Super Cassettes Industry and to cheat the civic body.

Jagtap and corporator Arvind Shinde had caught the tempo carrying 17 bags of audio cassettes near Pune railway station on May 5 evening, inspector in-charge of Deccan Gymkhana police station Ram Kondhalkar said.

The two corporators and their supporters, according to the complaint, intercepted the tempo soon after it left the Pune railway station campus with a transit pass issued in Chandani8217;s name.

On the same evening, Jagtap alleged in his complaint, the tempo was taken to the octroi department office near Nava Pul and handed over to octroi inspector Vilas Kulange.

Jagtap claimed in his complaint that octroi department officials M P Vaidya and Ramesh Gaikwad refused to take any action during a telephonic conversation with him.

Following this Jagtap approached S B Inamdar from Deccan Gymkhana police station. Later, Jagtap and Inamdar went to the octroi booth at Pune railway station and questioned clerk Dagadu Thorat.

Thorat, the complaint said, alleged that he issued the transit pass in the name of Rajesh Chandani without cross-checking the true copy of the purchase bill with the original after being directed to do so by octroi inspector Sachin Jadhav.

The complaint also accused the officials from the octroi department office near Nava Pul of releasing the tempo along with the cassettes loaded in it without bothering to cross-check the true copies of the purchase bills.

Later, according to the complaint, a panchanama by the police revealed that the number of cassettes mentioned in the bills did not match with the number of cassettes loaded in the tempo. The dates on the G pass and the transit pass issued in the name of Chandani were also not matching, it added.