Constable Gulam Mustafa, posted with the Police Control Room of the Delhi Police, was waiting for his salary of three months as part of the Sixth Pay Commission arrear amount due to him. He had recently been transferred to the department. The Deputy Commissioner of Police, PCR, instructed Axis Bank to release the amount, which came to Rs 37,319.

The same amount was credited to the account of a PCR head constable, who was also the in-charge of the constables’ salary department.

The case is among several charges of misappropriation of Delhi Police funds levelled against the staff members of the PCR accounts department. The Crime Branch is currently investigating a scam in the disbursal of salaries and arrears (following the implementation of the Sixth Central Pay Commission recommendations) of as many as 10,000 personnel with the PCR.

While initial inquiries estimated the fraud to of Rs 20 lakh, officials believe the amount could be higher.

Detected as early as November 2008, a couple of then assistant sub-inspectors, Ranjeet Singh and Randhir Singh, along with constable Anil Kumar, had brought the alleged fraud by PCR accounts department heads to the notice of the Inspector and the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), PCR. After no action was taken, Anil Kumar, in a letter to the Police Commissioner had alleged that then ACP (PCR) Shanti Devi, along with Inspector Suresh Chandra Gaur and head constables Ishwar Singh, Jai Prakash and Abhey Singh had fraudulently withdrawn excess salary and arrears to the tune of several lakhs from government funds.

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