Patiala August 28:
Police today arrested two persons, including a woman, for withdrawing money from the GPF accounts of some teachers in Rajpura subdivision of this district.
Senior Superintendent of Police Ranbir Singh Khatra said the arrest was made on the complaint lodged by District Education officer (DEO) Varsha Shukla against Sukhbir Singh, Block Resource Person (BRP), Dharam Pal Hit and Shashi Bala, both Block Primary Education officer (BPEO) and Clerk, Block Rajpura-1 Parveen Bala. Two accused Sukhbir Singh and Parveen Bala were arrested while the other too had gone absconding, he added.
In her complaint, the DEO alleged that the accused had allegedly made fake ID proofs of various teachers, opened fake accounts in various banks against their names and defrauded them by withdrawing money out of their GPF accounts from the government exchequer/ treasury. Police had registered a case against all of them under sections 419, 420, 409, 380, 467, 468, 471, 120-B IPC at Rajpura on August 23.