‘Cheating’ charges: Pre-arrest bail for Chandigarh Municipal Corporation staffer

Chandigarh, June 8

A local court has granted pre-arrest bail to an MC employee facing cheating charges.

Ramfal, a resident of Indira Colony Complex, Mani Majra, Chandigarh, applied for anticipatory bail after the Vigilance registered a case against him for alleged cheating and forgery.

The Vigilance had registered a case under Section 420 of the IPC on April 5, 2021. It has been alleged in the complaint that Ramfal and some other employees submitted fake age proof when the MC regularised their services.

The counsel for the applicant argued before the court that the accused was innocent and had been falsely implicated in the case. He was an illiterate person and was regularised for the post of ‘baildar’ in 1990. The difference in the date of birth seems to be a clerical mistake. There is no concealment on his part.

The public prosecutor argued that the applicant was involved in a serious case of cheating the department by submitting false affidavit of his age proof for getting service benefits. After hearing the arguments, the court allowed pre-arrest bail to the accused while directing him to join the investigation before the SHO concerned within 10 working days. — TNS