Hyderabad: A total of Rs 1.33 crore was allegedly embezzled from the City Armed Reserve (CAR) headquarters, and two employees have been arrested in connection with the case.
Central Crime Station (CCS) police registered a case against two CAR headquarters employees for allegedly misappropriating Rs 1.33 crore from various welfare and service-related accounts by forging signatures on cheques.
The case came to light after E Kalyani, an administrative officer at CAR headquarters, lodged a complaint with the CCS on October 28. During an internal inspection of records, officials reportedly detected irregularities in several CAR-managed funds, including education, sports, widow, dhobi and recreation funds, besides unit welfare, water charges and canteen accounts.
According to the complaint, junior assistants B Vinay Kumar and Mohsin Jalal allegedly misused unused cheque leaves from old cheque books and forged the signatures of authorised officers to withdraw funds.
The cheques were presented at the State Bank of India’s Hussaini Alam branch, and the funds were transferred to various individual accounts, the complainant told the CCS police.
Based on the complaint, the CCS registered a case under Sections 316(5) (criminal breach of trust), 318(4) (cheating), 336(3) (forgery), 337 (forgery of public records), 338 (forgery of valuable security), 340(2) (using a forged document as genuine) and 344 (falsification of accounts), read with Sections 61(2) (criminal conspiracy) and 3(5) (common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Police have so far identified 35 suspicious cheques and NEFT transactions carried out between August 2022 and April 2026.
Investigators found that the transactions were not supported by cash books or other official records. Some of the beneficiary accounts were found to belong to the two employees.
Jalal and Kumar were arrested and remanded to judicial custody on October 29.
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