JAMMU: Crime Branch (CB) has booked three employees of M/S Jammu Flour Mills for multi-crore embezzlement by committing criminal breach of trust and adopting peculiar modus-operandi. A written complaint was received in Crime Branch (EOW) Jammu from complainant Shri Arun Mahajan, Managing Partner, M/S Jammu Flour Mills, Gangyal, Jammu alleging therein that three employees of Jammu Flour Mills namely Dikshant Anand (Area Salesman), Narinder Chopra (Billing clerk) and Amit Sharma (Accountant) committed serious financial irregularity and embezzlements by resorting to a well-planned criminal conspiracy, fraud and deceit worth Rs. 2.00 to Rs. 2.50 Crores.
In the month of September, 2024, Mr. Moti Lal (Operations Manager) informed the complainant about suspicious billing activities resorted to by accused Narinder Chopra who was working as Billing Clerk in Flour Mill. On being aware, the complainant carried out self-audit of the accounts and discovered various fraudulent activities carried out by the accused Dikshant Anand, Narinder Chopra and Amit Sharma by hatching a well planned criminal conspiracy. Soon after the self-audit, the complainant got a comprehensive audit of the accounts of the Flour Mills from the Chartered Accountant and in the audit so conducted by the chartered Accountant in September, 2024, startling revelations including the modus-operandi adopted by accused persons came to fore.
The aforementioned accused persons used to divert the NEFT transactions to unrelated parties and for cash transactions, they resorted to under-billing and embezzled huge amounts. What the accused persons used to do is that a bill against a firm/party worth Rs.1.00 Lac was reduced to Rs. 80,000/- with Rs. 20,000/- difference embezzled by the accused persons. Accused Amit Sharma, Accountant, used to manipulate the entries allowing the fraud to go undetected. The accused persons after hatching a criminal conspiracy amongst themselves committed fraud and embezzled money worth Crore of rupees thereby cheated and deceived the complainant.
The accused Dikshant created fake parties and sold goods to multiple retailers under fake names. Even book debts from various parties to whom the goods have been supplied by Flour Mill of the complainant have been recovered by accused Dikshant and misappropriated/embezzled by the accused persons. In the audit, it came to fore that payments of the Flour Mills were transferred by accused persons to bank accounts of their family members, relatives and friends.
Senior Superintendent of Police Crime Jammu, Benam Tosh confirmed that a case FIR No. 06/2025 u/s 409, 465, 467, 468, 470, 471, 472, 120-B IPC is registered at P/S EOW, Crime Branch Jammu against :(1) Dikshant Anand S/o Harvinder Anand R/o Rehamble Udhampur, (2) Narinder Chopra S/o Satish Kumar Chopra R/o 116 Lakhdata Bazar Jammu (3) Amit Sharma S/o Bahadur Chand Sharma R/o 198, Preet Nagar Jammu & others and in-depth investigation has been started.
