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Retired IAF officer held for graft
A retired Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force was on Thursday arrested on charges of financial bungling in the accounts of a society for jawans and their widows which was spearheading the agitation
A retired Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force was on Thursday arrested on charges of financial bungling in the accounts of a society for jawans and their widows which was spearheading the agitation for “One Rank One Pension.”
Wing Commander C.K. Sharma (Retd) has been booked under Sections 420 (cheating), 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of IPC. He will be produced before a court on Thursday, the police said.
An FIR was registered against Wing Commander Sharma on the directions of the magistrate following a complaint by Lt. Gen. Raj Kadiyan (Retd), the chairman of Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement (IESM), who had alleged the officer siphoned off Rs 14 lakh from the accounts of the organisation.
The police had registered a case against three persons on February 8 after Lt. Gen. Kadiyan in a complaint alleged that “they had taken a lot of cash from the society funds between January and July 2013”.
