Commissionerate Police arrested six persons including four officials of Indian Postal Department for cheating Rs 42.05 lakh from General Post Office (GPO), Cuttack.
The arrested are Partha Sarathi Behera, his sister Bishnupriya Behera, senior Post Master Ratikanta Swain, Deputy Post Master, GPO, Cuttack Prabhakar Pati, senior Post Master of Chandini Chowk branch post office Rama Chandra Behera and assistant Post Master, GPO, Cuttack Jyoti Raj Dash.
DCP Sanjeev Arora said Assistant Superintendent of Post Office, East Sub-division Manoj Kumar Patnaik on June 9 lodged a complaint with Mangalabag police alleging that the six persons had misappropriated Government money from GPO, Cuttack during December, 2014 to December, 2015.
During investigation, it was found that they were issued with postal cheque books with balance of Rs 1,000. Partha issued cheques to Axis Bank and Union Bank of India on 14 occasions and all the cheques were cleared by the accused postal officials who got a huge share of the embezzled money. Bishnupriya had also issued cheques which were cleared by the postal officials.
Efforts are on to recover the Government funds, Arora said.
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