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Kapurthala: After investigating the salary distribution scam of officers and employees posted at Dhillon Primary Health Center (PHC), the Punjab Vigilance Bureau has arrested accused retired SMO Dr Lakhwinder Singh Chahal and PHC Dhillon’s senior assistant Ranjit Singh.
Giving information, the spokesperson of the Vigilance Bureau said that during the investigation, the Vigilance team found that an accused clerk, Rajwinder Singh, in the salary distribution case was earlier also involved in a salary fraud case at Sub-Divisional Hospital, Baba Bakala, District Amritsar. In this regard, a case was registered against him in the year 2013 at the Vigilance Bureau Police Station, Amritsar Range.
He said that after this, the Director of Health and Family Welfare Punjab transferred this accused clerk to PHC Dhillon in the year 2016. Dr Lakhwinder Singh Chahal, SMO Dhillon, despite knowing that a case related to salary fraud has been registered against the above accused, by his verbal orders posted another employee, Ranjit Singh, Bill Clerk, as an assistant to maintain salary accounts.
He further informed that during the investigation, the statements received from various banks of the accused Rajwinder Singh Clerk have proved that the accused had prepared fake salary and dearness allowance bills of employees who went on long leave. These were countersigned by the above-accused Ranjit Singh and approved by SMO Dr. Chahal. Rajwinder Singh, the Clerk, obtained the bills from the Treasury Office in Bhulath and subsequently committed embezzlement by withdrawing a total of Rs. 14,46,550 into his personal bank accounts.
In this regard, the Vigilance Bureau has registered a case against the three accused, Dr. Chahal, Ranjit Singh, and Rajwinder Singh, under sections 409, 467, 468, 471, 201, 120-B IPC, and 13(1)A read with the 13(2) Prevention of Corruption Act in Vigilance Bureau Police Jalandhar Range. Dr. Chahal and Ranjit Singh were produced in the court. From where they were sent to 14 days judicial custody. Further investigation is going on in this case.
