The fraud came to light when a Telengana MP thanked Ambika Soni for approving the expenditure
It has been one month since some fraudsters used senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha Member Ambika Soni's name to try and siphon off Rs 30 lakh from the state exchequer. Commissioner of Police Amulya Patnaik had then directed the elite wing of Delhi Police, the Crime Branch, to investigate the matter but there has been no breakthrough so far. The top cop recently told the officers to speed up the probe.
During the last Parliament session, Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member from Punjab Ambika Soni was shocked when a Lok Sabha Member of Parliament, AP Jithender Reddy, from Mahbubnagar in Telangana, thanked her for approving expenditure on development in his constituency. Reddy is an MP from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi Party.
Taken aback, Soni told Reddy that she was not aware of any such development. Apparently, the "approved" money was to come from her Members of Parliament Local Area Development Division (MPLAD) fund.
Reddy then explained to her that nearly Rs 30 lakh had been sanctioned for the development work. On further inquiry, Soni came to know that some unidentified fraudsters had issued a sanction letter of Rs 30 lakh with her signature on it.
Soni immediately wrote a two-page letter to Patnaik, urging him to register a case against the fraudsters.
Just last month, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had registered an FIR against unknown person/s for filing an RTI application using the forged signatures of All India Trinamool Congress MP, Dr Ratna De, two years ago.
Also, last year, the Delhi Police had registered a case of cheating and forgery on the request of a parliamentarian committee against some unknown persons, who forged the letterhead of BJP MP Yogi Adityanath and sent it to a few government units, such as GAIL, for financial gains.
Then, in 2013, in a complaint to the Union Home Minister, Gutha Sukender Reddy had stated that he had received letters from various Union Ministers, acknowledging his purported request to consider the appointment of a person for a particular committee or board. He later found that his letterhead and signature had been forged.
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