Punjab AIG booked for duping nephew of ₹3.5L
SUKHDEEP KAUR BRAR, A RETIRED IAS OFFICER, HAS ALLEGED THE AIG FORGED SIGNS OF HER SON TO WITHDRAW MONEY FROM A BANK ACCOUNT
CHANDIGARH:THE UT cyber crime branch has booked Punjab additional inspector general (AIG crime) Amrit Brar for allegedly duping her nephew of ₹3.5 lakh.
The complainant, Sukhdeep Kaur Brar, a retired IAS officer and wife of former Patiala senior superintendent of police (SSP) late Avender Singh Brar, has alleged that Amrit had forged signatures of their son Ajit Singh Brar to withdraw money from a bank account. Amrit is Avender Singh’s sister.
The first information report (FIR) states that Ajit, a resident of Canada, visited India in November 2013 to attend to his grandfather who was seriously ill. He was informed that he had a joint account with his grandfather Gurdarshan Singh Brar (of Malout) in the HDFC Bank in Chandigarh with a balance of ₹1.74 lakh.
Investigating officials said two months after returning to Canada in January 2014, Ajit received a message that his account balance was ₹79,000. After verifying with the bank officials it came to light that someone was withdrawing the money from Gurgaon and Chandigarh from two ATM cards.
After procuring the account statements it came to light that a sum of ₹3 lakh was transferred to the bank account on September 20, 2013. As per the FIR, Amrit allegedly in connivance with the bank officials forged the signatures and transferred ₹3.5 lakh to the bank account in the name of her mother Sukhpal Kaur through ‘RTGS’ by showing her voter ID.
The police officials have registered a case under Section 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), 471 (using genuine as forged) and120-b (criminal conspiracy) of Indian Penal Code and under the IT Act against Amrit, who is yet to be arrested.
When contacted, Amrit Brar said, “This is a bid to malign my image. We have a property dispute going on and the complainant is trying to pressurise me. When the transaction of ₹3 lakh was made, my father was alive and he transferred the amount to his wife’s account.”