Gandhinagar police, pursuing the investigation has recovered Rs.1.2 crores from the Gujarat Informatics Limited scam accused. GIL Executive accountant Ruchi Bhavsar; executive finance officer Vikrant Kansara; deputy director (accounts) and general manager Rakesh Amin; the GIL company secretary Japan Shah and an auditor named Sonu Singh of the Borkar & Muzumdar CA firm were booked under a case of cheating and forgery on July 4 at Sector 7 in Gandhinagar. GIL carries out hardware and software purchases for the state government.
The investigating officer in the case, Police Inspector J H Sindhav revealed that money from the GIL accounts had been deposited into the accounts of Ruchi Bhavsar along with accounts connected to Priyanka Solanki, Pritesh Patel, Dipak Mehta and Jaydeep Thakkar. These four persons have not been named in FIR.
Out of Rs. 1.2 crores recovered, Rs.85.8 lacs were recovered from Ruchi Bhavsar, whereas Rs.1.1 lac from Priyanka Parmar, Rs.2.67 lac from Pritesh Patel, Rs.21.6 lac from Dipak Mehta, Rs.14.4 lac from Jaydeep Thakkar were recovered.
An audit of the Gujarat Informatics Limited books had revealed uncovered irregularities worth Rs 28.31 crore initially. Following this, Gandhinagar local crime branch (LCB) arrested two employees of GIL, Ruchi Bhavsar and Vikrant Kansara.
Ruchi Bhavsar, a salaried employee had amassed cash and property worth Rs 5.57 crore between April 2018 and April 2022, though her only known means of finance was her salary totalling Rs.18 lacs.
Looking at the gravity of the issue of forgery with a government company, the case was pursued by Gandhinagar range IG Abhay Chudasama and superintendent of police Tarun Duggal who formed 15 teams headed by a PSI for the search operations. The teams accompanied by a videographer raided 20 locations and recovered cash, gold and cars, mobiles and computers worth a total of Rs 1.26 crore.
