Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 22

Two persons, including an ex-serviceman working as a cashier at the Defence Services Officers’ Institute (DSOI) in Sector 36 here, have been booked for embezzlement.

In a complaint to the police, DSOI secretary Lt Col Rakesh Gupta (retd) alleged that a former Naib Subedar, Gurdip Singh Dhaliwal, who worked as storekeeper and supervisor (administration) and another employee, Anil Sharma, connived to siphon off Rs 66,000 deposited by a member for booking halls for marriage function.

The complainant also alleged that between September 2017 and February this year, Dhaliwal and Verma used the same modus operandi wherein the cash deposited by members for booking of the DSOI hall for certain functions was not deposited with the accounts section.

A case has been registered under Sections 408 (criminal breach of trust by clerk or servant) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at the Sector 36 police station.