New Delhi: The CBI has charge sheeted three
persons including an IAS officer of Chattisgarh cadre for
allegedly adopting fraudulent ways to change ownership records
of a bank locker in back date after Rs 15 lakh were recovered
from it during an Income Tax search.
The charge sheet was filed against B L Agarwal, a 1988
batch IAS officer of Chhatisgarh cadre, Antony Sami, locker
in charge of Bank of Baroda, and brother of the bureaucrat, P K
Agarwal under various sections related to forgery and criminal
conspiracy.
The charge sheet was filed in a special CBI court at
Raipur which fixed December one as the next date of hearing in
the case, an official spokesperson said in a written
statement.
CBI alleged that the IAS officer entered into a criminal
conspiracy with the then Locker In charge and Manager, Bank of
Baroda at Raipur for fabrication of bank records and making
back dated entries with regard to transfer of a locker in his
brother`s name.
The investigating agency had registered a fraud case
against Agarwal, a member of Revenue Board of Chhattisgarh in
January this year.
PTI
