Army veteran & OROP protestor held

In a recent development in the case of embezzlement of money from the One Rank One Pension movement’s account, one of the accused C K Sharma has been arrested by the Gurgaon Police on late Thursday evening.

Exactly a month back, the chairman of OROP society had registered a case against three accused for illegally withdrawing the money from the society’s account and running with it. In a recent development in this case, one of the accused, C K Sharma was arrested by the Gurgaon Police. However, the Gurgaon Police was not available to confirm this news, but the complainant, Raj Kadyan confirmed Millennium Post that the Gurgaon Police called him and informed him about C K Sharma’s arrest.

“I received a call from Gulam Mohammad, the SHO of the economic wing, Gurgaon, confirming that C K Sharma was arrested by the Gurgaon Police today (Thursday),” said Raj Kadyan, the complainant.

Sources also revealed that the rest of the two accused — Satbir Singh and Vinod Kumar are still on the run and couldn’t be traced by the Gurgaon Police.

Apart from C K Sharma, a former Major General was also booked for allegedly stealing money from the Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement (IESM) society’s account. Former Major General Satbir Singh allegedly withdrew Rs 14 lakh from the society’s account in 2013. Two other Army officials — C K Sharma and Vinod Kumar — were also allegedly involved in the crime. IESM was formed for retired Armed Forces personnel in August 2008 and is headquartered in Gurgaon. The objective of the society is to collect funds from retired Army officials to support the ‘One Rank One Pension’ (OROP) movement. The movement was started to promote and support IESM causes, war widows, officers injured in wars and render assistance and advice on matters of pension, health coverage and legal issues. The society has more than 20,000 members.

The complaint was registered by IESM chairman Raj Kadyan. When the complaint was first registered, the police had said that they will first check the records of the account and then further take action in the matter.