New Delhi, September 01: CBI today filed a chargesheet in a court here against 17 persons accusing them of fraudulently withdrawing Rs 14.55 crore from various banks in Uttar Pradesh (UP) by en-cashing 15 forged cheques of North Eastern Railways.
Additional Sessions Judge O P Saini took the chargehseet into the records and fixed the matter on September seven for taking its congnizance.
CBI has sought prosecution of 17 accused, hailing from various places in UP, under various provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the IPC, dealing with bribe criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery and presenting fake documents as genuine.
Accused R K Gupta and Amar Chand Verma were absconding, while other 15 were out on bail.
“The GEQD (Government Examiner of Questioned Documents) has fully established the forgery of RBI cheques and has also opined that signatures of Railways officers appearing on the forged cheques are in fact scanned reproduction of their genuine signatures…,” the chargesheet said.
The probe agency had lodged a case on September 3 last year on the complaint of Anand Prakash, General Manager (Banking) of RBI, that a RBI cheque of Rs 85.90 lakh was fraudulently withdrawn from a branch of Axis Bank here.
After a detailed probe into the fraud, CBI stumbled upon various similar acts.
—Agencies