Pune: An employee of the Pune office has duped his company by transferring the official amount of GST and electricity bill to a third anonymous person. The employee has transferred a total of 2 crore, 75 lakh, 84 thousand, and 156 rupees and embezzled the company’s account.
This incident took place at Electronica Finance Ltd., a company situated in Erandwane, from May 2022 to December 2023. In this regard, Mahesh Purushottam Agarwal, 47, a resident of D.P. Road, Kothrud, filed a police complaint against the accused, Rohit Eknath Bachute, at Deccan Police Station on Thursday, January 18.
The accused, Bachute, was working for the company and was entrusted with the responsibility of paying GST on the company’s transactions. However, seizing the opportunity, the accused illicitly transferred Rs 2 crore, 75 lakh, 84 thousand, and 156 from the company’s bank account situated at FC Road to one of his friend’s accounts.
He syphoned the amount, originally intended for the payment of GST and electricity bills, to his friend’s account, and furthermore, he cheated other people from the office by doing some transactions from the computers of other employees of the company.
Therefore, the complaint was lodged against the accused at Deccan Police Station. Accordingly, police charged the accused under sections 408 of the IPC and the IT Act. Further investigation in this case is being conducted by Senior Police Inspector Vipin Hasabnis.
