: Gujarat: Rs 5.25 crore missing from Statue of Unity daily collection account, case filed #IndiaNEWS The police in Gujarat’s Narmada district have booked staff of a private cash management company

Gujarat: Rs 5.25 crore missing from Statue of Unity daily collection account, case filed #IndiaNEWS
The police in Gujarat’s Narmada district have booked staff of a private cash management company under various sections for an alleged theft of Rs 5.25 crore from the daily collections of the Statue of Unity, The Indian Express reported on Wednesday.The complaint, filed by the manager of a Vadodara branch of HDFC Bank at the local Kevadiya police station, names Writer Business Services Private Limited for allegedly siphoning off the money between October 2018 and March 2020. The Kevadiya police has registered the complaint and started an investigation into the matter, according to the newspaper.The complaint states that HDFC Bank, which provided services for offline ticketing and parking fees to the Statue of Unity administration, had outsourced the doorstep cash collection facility of offline tickets to Writer Business.“The receipt of the cash received is issued to the Statue of Unity administration and is periodically reconciled with the cash deposit entries made in the bank account,??? an official at the tourist site told The Indian Express. During a matching of entries, the auditors at the Statue of Unity noticed a discrepancy between the receipts submitted by the Writer Business, on behalf of HDFC Bank, and the actual entries.“An amount of Rs 5.25 crore was missing although the receipts in our record showed...Read more

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