Embezzlement of Rs 1.5 cr comes to fore in BPS Women University

Tribune News Service

Sonepat, April 18

A scam of Rs 1.5 crore has reportedly come to the fore at Bhagat Phool Singh Women University in Khanpur Kalan of the district.

The police have booked six employees, including the registrar of the university, for their alleged involvement in the embezzlement of Rs 1.5 crore. A case regarding the matter was registered on the complaint of a sub-inspector-level official of the CM’s flying squad.

The police have booked Ritu Bajaj, registrar of the BPS university; Rajesh Manocha, financial officer; Seema Malik, clerk; Rajesh Verma, ex-financial officer; Ved Prakash Dua, accounts officer and Ajay Malik, data entry operator under Sections 409 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating) and 120-B of the IPC and Section 65 of the Information Technology (IT) Act 2008 at the Women police station, Khanpur Kalan.

Sub-inspector Karambir Singh in the CM’s flying squad, in his complaint to the women police station, Khanpur Kalan, said the rent of the shops in the market of Bhagat Phool Singh Women University in Khanpur, electricity charges of staff quarters, farm fee of students, fee for applying for jobs, RTI fee, paper fee and late fee were deposited in cash after given receipt by hand and Seema Malik had been appointed as a clerk on the fee collection counter in the accounts department.

The university had started fee collection through the online system and Ajay Malik, who was posted as a data entry operator/computer assistant had made a software for the online fee connection, while there were two computer programmers in the university.

It was alleged that Seema Malik was involved in embezzling the funds in connivance with Ajay Malik and the then financial officer Rakesh Verma.

“Seema Malik gives online receiving slips to the applicants, but deleted some of the slips from the software and made a total loss of Rs 1.5 crore to the university,” the complaint reads.

Even, after the highlighting of the scam, the clerk Seema Malik had deposited Rs 26 lakh to the university.

It was also mentioned that the CM’s flying squad had demanded the document regarding the scam from the university on March 16 last year and as per records, 812 receipts were issued by the computers but were found missing.

Even, SI Karambir Singh of the CM’s flying squad said in the complaint that they were demanding records regarding the embezzlement of the funds from the registrar of the university.

“Even, the records were not provided by officials despite sending reminders 29 times to them in the past 10 months to the registrar and personally meeting with the Vice Chancellor, registrar and the financial officer,” the complainant says.

SI Shakuntla, SHO, PS Women, said six officials of the university had been booked for embezzling the funds, but the case had been sent to the SHO, Sadar, inspector Karamjeet Singh, for investigation as only an inspector-level official can investigate the case, she added.

FEE SLIPS DELETED FROM SOFTWARE

• The university had started online fee collection and Ajay Malik, who was posted as a data entry operator/ computer assistant had made a software for the purpose.
• It was alleged that clerk Seema Malik was involved in embezzling the funds in connivance with Ajay Malik and the then financial officer Rakesh Verma.
• Seema gave online receiving slips to the applicants, but deleted some slips from the software, resulting in loss of Rs 1.5 crore to university.

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