A post office assistant in Sambhal has been arrested after allegedly siphoning ₹1.40 crore from customers by issuing fake receipts and diverting funds for online betting, including Dream11.
A postal employee in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, has been arrested after police accused him of siphoning off ₹1.40 crore from customers’ fixed deposits and savings accounts by issuing bogus receipts, according to local reports.
Police said Deepak Kumar, an assistant postmaster, allegedly took cash from account holders who came to deposit money at the post office, gave them fake acknowledgements and then diverted the funds for online betting. Investigators said the missing money has so far been traced to seven complainants.
According to the police account, Kumar appears to have targeted customers whose mobile numbers were not linked to their postal accounts, limiting the chance that transaction alerts would reach them. That allowed the alleged fraud to go unnoticed for longer while the money was being moved out of the system.
Police also said Kumar told them he had staked roughly ₹4 crore in online betting, including on Dream11. Officers are now examining whether other postal staff had any role in the scheme and whether the overall loss is higher than the amount already identified.
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