Pilibhit , Seven ladies, together with two wives of an accused peon, had been arrested in reference to an alleged embezzlement of ₹5.5 crore from the District Inspector of Faculties workplace in Pilibhit, officers stated on Saturday.
Greater than ₹5 crore has been frozen in financial institution accounts linked to the accused, Ilham-ur-Rahman Shamsi, police stated, including that his third spouse, a trainer, is at present out on bail.
In keeping with the police, certainly one of Shamsi’s wives, Arshi Khatoon, had been arrested earlier and launched on bail within the final week of March. Two different wives, Lubna and Ajara Khan, have now been arrested. The arrests additionally embody his sister-in-law, mother-in-law and different acquaintances.
The case got here to gentle in February this 12 months when a Financial institution of Baroda supervisor knowledgeable District Justice of the Peace Gyanendra Singh that ₹1.15 crore had been transferred from the treasury to a non-public account.
A 3-member inquiry committee constituted by the district administration discovered that funds had been siphoned off for eight years from the District Inspector of Faculties workplace into non-public accounts within the names of pretend lecturers.
Police stated Shamsi, posted as a peon at Bisalpur Inter Faculty, had managed to get himself hooked up to the DIOS workplace round eight years in the past and was accountable for producing wage tokens.
He allegedly created faux identities of lecturers, clerks and contractors within the names of his wives and family members and transferred ₹8.15 crore into seven accounts as faux salaries and funds.
Extra Superintendent of Police Vikram Dahiya stated a case was registered on February 13, 2026, at Kotwali police station on a criticism by DIOS Rajiv Kumar beneath related sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Through the investigation, 53 suspicious accounts had been recognized, and ₹5.5 crore has been frozen to date, police stated.
Shamsi secured anticipatory bail from the Excessive Court docket on March 30, police added.
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