Gwalior
In Gwalior, the fifth investigative agency has now been entered in the case of former RTO constable Saurabh Sharma case. After the Lokayukta, ED, Income Tax Department and DRI, now Gwalior Police has registered an FIR against Saurabh Sharma and his mother Uma Sharma. A case of fraud has been registered against Saurabh and Uma Sharma against the Transport Department at Sirol police station in Gwalior at around 11:30 pm on Friday night.
In 2016, while taking compassionate appointment in the Transport Department, Saurabh and his mother Uma Sharma hid the government job in Chhattisgarh in the affidavit. After getting the green signal from the headquarters, a case has been registered against both of them in Gwalior. RTI activist Sanket Sahu had already complained to the Lokayukta about the appointment of Saurabh.
According to the application to the police, Assistant Transport Commissioner Kiran Kumar received a letter from the Joint Transport Commissioner on 1 January 2025. In which there were instructions to investigate the affidavit given regarding the appointment of retired transport constable Saurabh Sharma. The Assistant Transport Commissioner investigated and called for a service record. Saurabh Sharma did not mention in the affidavit that his elder brother Sachin Sharma is in a government job in Chhattisgarh. His mother Uma Sharma also gave an affidavit to the appointment of Saurabh. In which the talk of the government job of the elder son was hidden. During the district, the Finance Department of the Government of Chhattisgarh was contacted and the list of employees was removed from the website, then Saurabh’s elder brother Sachin Sharma was confirmed to be posted in the Road Development Corporation Raipur. Due to which the affidavit has found evidence of being false.
In the case of Saurabh Sharma case, former constable of the Transport Department, the documents of ED Money Trail and Property, while the Income Tax Department is checking 54 kg of gold and Rs 11 crore from Saurabh’s friend Chetan Singh Gaur’s car. The Lokayukta is investigating the disproportionate assets than income, DRI is investigating whether the gold that has been received has been taken in a legal way or not? Investigation agencies have also got the connection to consuming black earnings to be a colony. Now the Gwalior police have registered a case against Saurabh and his mother Uma Sharma under fraud and other sections.