FIR registered in Home Guard scam
GAUTAM BUDDH NAGAR: Gautam Buddh Nagar Police, on Thursday, said that they have registered an FIR against the ‘officials of district home guards department' for allegedly swindling crores of rupees by marking fake attendance of home guards deployed at various police stations across the district.
Cops said that the FIR has been registered against half a dozen employees of the home guard department under sections of fraud and other relevant sections of IPC.
Kumar Ran Vijay Singh, Superintendent of Police (rural), said that the FIR has been registered at Surajpur police station in Greater Noida on late Wednesday night.
“Following the directions from Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Gautam Buddh Nagar the FIR has been registered under the Indian Penal Code sections 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent), 420 (punishment for fraud), 467, 468 and 471 (forgery of documents) against unknown persons. Police have successfully managed to gather enough evidences during preliminary investigations into the matter and we are hopeful to make breakthrough soon,” said Singh.
Meanwhile, senior cops also recommended to hand over the probe in UP home guard scam to crime branch or a state level agency for a fairer probe. Officials informed that upon looking into the data of two months,
May and June, it came to light that fifty percent of the salary drawn for these two months was done by forging the muster rolls to inflate attendance of the home guards thus conducting a fraud suspected to be worth crores.
It also came to light that the maximum number of inflation in attendance during this period was done in Knowledge park police station of Greater Noida. Police are questioning the senior cops and SHOS of those police stations names of whom were involved in the scam. As per data, there are around 500 home guards, including 50 in traffic police department, deployed in Gautam Buddh Nagar. These personnels do not enjoy privileges, including salary or treatment at par with police.