A city sessions court on Feb 6 denied regular bail to two postal agents of the year 1999-2000 in the Shastrinagar post office in an alleged scam of ₹6 cr.

Small investors and a large number of senior citizens lost their age-old savings to alleged scammers Tejas Shah and his wife Gira Shah and another accused, Darshana Bhatt, who duped them under the guise of postal agents.

For the crime branch, the public prosecutor of the city civil and sessions court, Sudhir Brahmbhatt, said that accused Gira and Darshana misused their authority as postal agents and duped innocents- especially senior citizens, of crores of money.

They recovered the lifetime savings of common people by giving them schemes like the Monthly Income Scheme (MIS), the Post Office Time Deposit Scheme (TD scheme), the Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP), and the Senior Citizens’ Saving Scheme (SCSS).

The accused used to exchange the real post office passbooks with the fake ones during the documentation of the schemes and obtained ₹6 cr from them till now.

Even after years of the revelation of the scam, the authority has been frequently receiving complaints from the victims of the scam against the three accused.

As per the details of the case, Tejas Shah, whose post agency was dismissed by the postal department in 2017, along with other accused, opened an agency near the post office in Shastrinagar and scammed a number of citizens.

Currently, Tejas, the main accused, is in Sabarmati Jail, while Gira and Darshana applied for bail in the sessions court, and were rejected.

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