Ujjian (Madhya Pradesh): Police arrested the transferred jail superintendent of Ujjain's Bhairavgarh Jail, Usha Raj on Saturday morning. She is one of the prime accused of multi-million DPF and GPF scam that surfaced in the jail.
Raj was dodging police interrogation for the last five-days since she was admitted to a private hospital inIndore on the pretext of chest pain.
SP Satyendra Kumar Shukla confirmed her arrest from Indore. Likewise, another accused and jail accountant Ripudaman Singh Raghuvanshi has also been arrested from Kashi. Both of them will be produced in local court today, where the police will seek their remand.
Embezzled ₹15 crore
Raj has been accused of embezzlement of General Provident Fund (GPF) amounting to around ₹15 crore of jail employees.
Usha Raj was repeatedly summoned by the police for interrogation in connection with the GPF Scam the offence of which was registered by the Bhairavgarh police on March 11 under Section 420 and 409 of the IPC.
