Punjab Crime: Ex-MLA Dharamvir Agnihotri's Son, Daughter-In-Law Among 5 Booked For Fraud In City Council Embezzlement Case

Chandigarh: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB), on Friday booked the son and daughter-in-law of ex-MLA from Tarn Taran, among five persons, on the charges of committing embezzlement in the funds of city council.

An official VB spokesperson said that the accused involved in this case included Sharanjeet Kaur, executive officer and Narinder Kumar, clerk, of city council, Tarn Taran, ex-MLA Dharamvir Agnihotri’s son Sandeep Kumar Agnihotri and ex-MLA’s daughter-in-law Jyoti Sachdeva, owner of M/s MK Padam Petroleum and one Rajiv Gupta, a resident of New Pawan Nagar, Amritsar, a shareholder in M/s Sharp Focus vision Pvt. Ltd and M/s SR Enterprises Ltd.

The spokesperson said that in this case Sharanjeet Kaur, EO and Narinder Kumar, clerk, and Rajiv Gupta have been arrested.

The spokesperson held it came to light that fraudulent transactions were done by the said EO during the years from 2017-2022 by making wrong payments through cheques to M/s Sidhu Construction company, M/s Brother Construction company and M/s Friends Association from different heads. In addition to this, by colluding with Sandeep Kumar Agnihotri, the accused EO had issued bogus payments to his companies M/s Sharp Focus vision Pvt. Ltd and M/s SR Enterprises.

He further informed that during the checking conducted by the local government department, the recovery was made of the above said bogus payments but an amount of over Rs 27 lakh is still pending.

During the enquiry, it was found that Sandeep Kumar Agnihotri also got bogus payments of over Rs 4,41,03,086 issued in the name of M/s MK Padam Petroleum owned by his wife Jyoti Sachdeva. Afterwards, Sandeep Agnihotri had deposited part of this bogus payment back to the accounts of city council Tarn Taran, but Rs 35, 45,404 are still pending.