Ludhiana: The police on Saturday booked the HR head of a hosiery factory on the charge of embezzling Rs 35.79 lakh.
The accused has been identified as Jagveer Singh of Bhamiyan Kalan, Jamalpur. He has been working as the HR head of KG Export, a hosiery factory in Mahindra Enclave, Moti Nagar, for the past four years.
Factory owner Manish Dua, a resident of Moti Nagar, said in his police complaint, “Jagveer looked after the payment of salaries and other work. In November 2020, I found discrepancies in the accounts. During checking, it was found that Jagveer was crediting salaries to the accounts of five employees who had left the job in 2017. When the five had quit, Jagveer had taken their debit cards. After that, he kept crediting salaries to their accounts and withdrew the cash from different ATM kiosks with their debit cards. He has, thus, embezzled Rs 35.79 lakh.”