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…