A court in Panchkula sent former municipal commissioner Ram Kumar Singh to judicial custody on Monday after the CBI said he did not cooperate in a probe into a Rs 79.46 crore fraud.
The remand came after Singh and co-accused Prince Sharma completed three days in CBI custody. Singh, the first Haryana-cadre IAS officer arrested in the case, was taken into custody on June 18 for alleged misappropriation of funds from the Panchkula Municipal Corporation account at the IDFC First Bank branch in Chandigarh Sector 32.
The CBI told the court of Additional Sessions Judge Amit Sharma that investigators had confronted Singh with evidence of account openings, fixed deposit transactions and fund transfers to shell companies. The agency said digital evidence had been deleted from the accused’s devices and that some proceeds of crime were still unrecovered.
The probe into the larger Rs 590 crore IDFC First Bank scam continues, with the CBI stating that the role of other officials and the trail of funds remain under investigation. The agency has already filed a final report against several accused persons.
