TIRUPATI: Kadapa police on Friday arrested three document writers in connection with the fake challan scam in the state and seized Rs 2.71 lakh in cash and other assets worth Rs 67 lakh.
The accused were identified as J Ramakrishna (50), A Lakshmi Narayana (53) and A Guru Prakash (25).
The arrests come a day after chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy directed officials to bring those involved in the scam in the registration and stamps department to book. The irregularities unearthed in Kadapa point to a loss of Rs 1.03 crore so far. Similar irregularities have come to light in various districts across the state over the last couple of weeks.
Police said the trio had siphoned off Rs 1.03 crore from the Kadapa urban and rural registrar offices by creating 798 fake challans in connection with 241 documents. The accused used five different bank accounts to divert the funds into their own bank accounts instead of remitting it to the state government treasury.
Kadapa police seized one CPU, monitor, keyboard, a mouse and two printers from the possession of the accused. A case was registered against the trio.
