FARIDABAD, December 2: Deputy Excise and Taxation Commissioner Mukesh Ghambhir who was charged last week under the Prevention of Corruption Act -- and is currently absconding -- has been transferred to Chandigarh as Deputy Commissioner (DC), Flying Squad (excise and taxation).Under his present designation as chief of the flying squad, Ghambhir, is expected to check corruption within the department. Confirming his transfer, sources said that though his post is equivalent to the one that he held here, his jurisdiction is much wider.
Meanwhile, the anticipatory bail petition for Ghambhir will come up for hearing tomorrow at a district court in Faridabad.
The district police today interrogated his wife Renu. Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mamta Singh said: ``She has made several contradictory statements. We are investigating several sale-deeds made in the name of different persons which were found during the raid on their Faridabad residence.'' The police claim that they had found several sale-deeds of different houses, including one in Sukhdev Vihar, located in south Delhi.
The mode of payment for the house where the Ghambhirs are residing is also under investigation, the police said. ``The payment for the house was made through a cheque in the name of one N.K. Goyal. It was encashed in an account under Goyal's name but bore Gambhir's address,'' they added.
A few relatives and friends of the Gambhir family are also under surveillance, the police disclosed. Several blank Times Bank and Vijaya Bank cheques were also found during the raid. ``Whatever transaction has been made on the previous sequence of these cheques runs into lakhs of rupees,'' said the ASP.
The bank accounts were operated by Renu's nephew, Gautam Ghambhir. A second nephew, Amit Dhir, a Delhi-based businessman, is also scheduled for interrogation, according to the police. The police have found a VDIS receipt for an amount of Rs 14 lakh in the name of Amit Dhir from the Gambhir house. ``On verification, our team found that Dhir was not staying at the address mentioned in the VDIS receipt,'' said the police.
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