Rs 5 Crore From Statue Of Unity Ticket Sales Allegedly Siphoned Off: Cops

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Police have registered a case against some employees of a cash collection agency in the state for allegedly cheating a bank by not depositing the amount of Rs 5.24 crore during November 2018 to March 2020 which was generated from the sale of tickets for the Statue of Unity, an officer said on Wednesday.

The bank, in which the Statue of Unity management held two accounts, had hired an agency to collect cash daily from authorities at Kevadia in Narmada district and deposit it the next day, Deputy Superintendent of Police Vani Dudhat told reporters. "However, some staffers of the agency prima facie didn't deposit an amount of Rs 5,24,77,375 into the bank accounts of the statue management between November 2018 and March 2020," said Dudhat.

The officer said an FIR was lodged by the manager of the private bank against unidentified persons working with the cash collection agency at Kevadia police station on Monday night. Police have registered a case under sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Dudhat said, adding that police are yet to make an arrest in the case.