CBI court sentences ex-sub-postmaster to 3 years in Rs 15.27 lakh deposit case
A CBI court in Ghaziabad convicted a former Agra sub-postmaster who, the CBI said, misappropriated Rs 15.27 lakh deposited by 51 people, and sentenced the official to three years.
A CBI court in Ghaziabad on 23 October 2026 convicted a former sub-postmaster of a post office in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, and sentenced the official to three years' imprisonment with a fine of Rs 25,000. According to the CBI, the official misappropriated Rs 15.27 lakh deposited by 51 people at the post office.
What Happened
The CBI said it registered the case on 17 December 2008 against the then Sub Post Master of Post Office Beg Muzaffar Khan in Agra. According to the CBI, 51 depositors opened MIS and TDS accounts at the post office and handed their initial deposits to the official.
The depositors were issued new passbooks with account numbers, and each passbook showed the initial deposit under the official's signature, the CBI said. Per the CBI, the official recorded these deposits only in the passbooks and the ledgers. They were left out of the other records, including the list of transactions and the daily account summary, which is how each day's credits and debits are reported to the head office and reconciled.
In this way, the CBI said, the official dishonestly misappropriated Rs 15,27,000, causing wrongful loss to the postal department and a corresponding gain to the official.
The CBI filed a chargesheet, the formal document setting out the charges, on 30 September 2009. After the trial, the court convicted and sentenced the accused.
What It Means
The case concerned money that ordinary savers handed over the counter at a post office. According to the CBI's account, the deposits appeared in the depositors' passbooks but were kept out of the daily records that the post office reports to its head office, where the day's entries are checked and matched. The loss, per the CBI, fell on the postal department.
The conviction is the court's finding after a full trial. It comes nearly 18 years after the case was registered and about 17 years after the chargesheet was filed.
The release does not give details of what happened to the 51 depositors' accounts after the case came to light, or whether any amount has been recovered.
Source: CBI press release
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Sources & Citations
- CBI press release — Central Bureau of Investigation