On 22 January, a young man named Prashant was seen near Old Rajinder Nagar metro station in Gurugram, where he collected money in three tranches of Rs 1 crore, Rs 50 lakh and another Rs 50 lakh from hawala operators in Chandni Chowk. The transfers were identified by a single Rs 10 note whose serial number had been pre‑shared. Prashant is the son of Ram Kumar Singh, a former IAS officer and Commissioner of the Panchkula Municipal Corporation, whose accounts were involved in the diversion of public funds.
The CBI’s supplementary chargesheet, filed before the Special Judge in Panchkula on 2 September, reconstructs the chain of movements using call detail records, WhatsApp chats, and signed receipts seized from Delhi’s cash‑exchange network. It shows that on 11 January a courier delivered Rs 50 lakh to Singh’s official residence after a confirmation call. On 22 January, banker Ribhav Rishi’s couriers gathered Rs 50 lakh, Rs 30 lakh and Rs 20 lakh from local sources and an additional Rs 1 crore from Mega Store outlets. All amounts were handed to hawala operator Lalit in two installments of Rs 1 crore each. Lalit then communicated the serial number of the Rs 10 note to Delhi hawala operators, who passed the money to Prashant through three Patels, each transaction backed by receipts.
The chargesheet, along with a 196‑page supplementary sheet and a 568‑page final report, alleges that more than Rs 400 crore was siphoned from accounts opened at IDFC First Bank and later AU Small Finance Bank. Eight Haryana government bodies – including the Haryana State Pollution Control Board, Haryana Power Generation Corporation, Haryana School Shiksha Pariyojna Parishad, Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board, Development and Panchayats Department, Panchkula Municipal Corporation, Kalka Municipal Council and Haryana Labour Welfare Board – were implicated. The fraud involved misrepresentation of interest rates, bypassing account‑opening rules, illicit transfers, forged fixed‑deposit receipts, and laundering through cash, gold and property.
Key accused include IAS officers Ram Kumar Singh, Pankaj Agarwal, and Pradeep Kumar, bankers Ribhav Rishi and Abhay Kumar, and hawala operator Lalit. They face charges of criminal conspiracy, breach of trust, cheating, forgery, and corruption under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Several of the accused are in judicial custody, while others remain at large.
