Five employees have been suspended in the case of extorting Rs 15 lakh from the Kazhakootam sub-treasury using fake cheques. Junior superintendents Sally and Suja, accountants Shahjahan, Vijayaraj and Girish were suspended pending investigation. The inspection team of the finance department found that money was stolen from the accounts of the deceased. A case has also been registered by the Kazhakootam police in the incident.
Pensioner Sreekaryam Cheruvakal lodged a complaint with the treasury officer showing that two and a half lakh rupees were withdrawn from the account of M. Mohanakumari twice . Since 2023, Mohanakumari had not gone to the treasury to withdraw money as she had gone to Australia with her daughter.
The money was withdrawn on June 3 and 4 using fake cheques. After returning home, Mohanakumari, who reached the district treasury and checked the bank records, found that two lakh rupees had been withdrawn on the 3rd of this month and 50,000 rupees on the 4th. Treasury officials said that a new check book has been issued. But Mohanakumari said that she had not applied for the check book and the signature on the check was forged.
