Three Jammu Flour Mills Staff Arrested in Rs2–2.5 Crore Embezzlement Case
Officials traced the fraud to fake vendors created through diverted NEFT payments following a chartered accountant’s audit.
Overview
- Dikshant Anand, Narinder Chopra and Amit Sharma were arrested on June 12 by the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Crime Branch.
- The accused held roles as an area salesman, billing clerk and accountant at Jammu Flour Mills.
- An audit revealed that Rs2–2.5 crore was siphoned off via under-billing, misappropriated book debts and payments routed to relatives’ accounts.
- Investigators say the trio created fake parties and rerouted NEFT transactions to unrelated accounts to conceal the theft.
- Senior Superintendent of Police Benam Tosh confirmed the arrests and said interrogations are under way.