Accountant swipes right to steal

By Pragna L Krupa

Not hearts, however money from a locker the place day-to-day collections from a petrol station have been deposited. He stole 1000's of rupees over three months

A case has been registered towards the accountant of a non-public company running a petroleum bunk in Bellandur for allegedly misusing the grasp swipe card of the locker during which the day-to-day assortment from a petroleum station was once kept. The accused is suspected to have stolen lakhs of rupees all the way through the past three months which is now being calculated and audited by means of the company. The theft came to mild when auditors of the company pointed out some discrepancies in the amount amassed from the petrol station and the amount deposited in the account, which led to an inside probe. The company filed a proper complaint with the Bellandur police station towards the accountant claiming that he was once taking money without authorisation, by means of the usage of his swipe card. The accused had stolen money over a duration of 3 months, from January to March 2019.

The accused has been known as Nitesh Daruk, a resident of Bellandur who was once arrested by means of the police. They are investigating additional into the fees levelled towards him. Daruk has been accused of taking around Rs 25,000 from the locker on a couple of occasions. The complainant, Ramakrishna Rao, who's in control of the petrol bunk had filed a police complaint after an inside probe. They had additionally submitted CCTV photos showing Daruk opening the safe and pocketing money from it. Police arrested him at the foundation of tthis proof and he was once remanded to judicial custody on Friday.

The complainant had told the police that Daruk were running as an accountant with them because the closing one and half years. He mentioned that from January 2019 to March 2019, the accused embezzled money from the safe by means of misusing the swipe card which was once given to him. On receiving a mail from the top office pointing out that the accused had taken Rs 25,000 from the safe locker in the month of January, they confronted him and later filed a complaint with the police after he failed to admit to taking the cash.

Police mentioned that the accused was once incharge of maintaining the amount in the safe locker after accumulating it from the shoppers at the petrol station. “The accused was once given a swipe card to access the safe locker. He would deposit the cash into the locker in entrance of different workers and would wait till 6:30 pm, when everybody left. Then he would use the swipe card to thieve amounts between Rs 25,000 and Rs 30,000,” mentioned a police reputable.

Not simplest did he continue to thieve the cash from the locker, he additionally submitted a mistaken report to the company. It came to mild after the department in-charge received a mail from the top office about one such transaction and requested them to seem into it. Police mentioned that he had embezzled several lakhs of rupees and the company is yet to calculate how a lot was once actually stolen by means of the accused. The Bellandur police have arrested the accused and feature remanded him to the 14 days of judicial custody.