A CBI court in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, just handed down a tough sentence to a former sub post master who stole over Rs 70 lakh from depositors’ accounts. Vishal Kumar Ahirwar, who worked at the Khimlasa Sub Post Office in Sagar district from 2020 to 2022, now faces five years of rigorous imprisonment and a Rs 32,000 fine.
The court made the ruling on Thursday, wrapping up a case the CBI started back on November 17, 2022. Investigators say Ahirwar abused his position by creating fake withdrawal slips and tweaking account passbooks. From June 2020 to March 2022, this post office fraud let him pocket Rs 70.97 lakh, hitting the government hard and boosting his own wallet.
After digging into the details, the CBI filed charges against Ahirwar on November 23, 2023, in front of the Special Judge for CBI cases in Jabalpur. During the trial, prosecutors laid out clear evidence of how he pulled off the scheme over nearly two years. In the end, the judge convicted him and delivered the verdict to fight back against such corruption.
This isn’t the only recent win for the CBI in cracking down on financial scams. On September 25, a Special Judge at the CBI Court in Ghaziabad sentenced Manoj Srivastava, a former branch manager at Union Bank of India’s SSI Branch in Noida, to four years in prison plus a Rs 30,000 fine. Srivastava got caught up in a Rs 40 lakh bank fraud case that the agency launched in December 2010, targeting him and others for cheating the system.
These convictions highlight the CBI’s ongoing push to root out corruption and fraud in banks and post offices—places that handle everyday people’s money. It’s a reminder that no one gets away with misappropriating public funds for long.
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