CID Crime clerk accused of cheating Gujarat govt of ₹15 lakh by submitting fake family pension papers

A woman employed as a junior clerk with the CID Crime Railway office in Gandhinagar has been booked for allegedly defrauding the government of ₹14.89 lakh by submitting fake certificates to continue receiving family pension after her husband’s death. The woman, identified as Dakshaben Vyas, a resident of Maninagar, is accused of concealing her second marriage and producing false self-declarations to claim the pension for over two decades.

According to the complaint filed by Hardikkumar Prajapati, a Treasury Officer with the Pension Disbursement Office in Kalol, Dakshaben’s husband Kartik Vyas, who served as a police constable, had died of cancer on July 30, 1993. Following his death, Dakshaben began receiving family pension benefits after submitting documents declaring that she had not remarried.

However, investigations later revealed that she had remarried, in violation of pension eligibility rules. Despite this, she continued to submit bogus certificates annually and allegedly drew pension payments from November 1995 to October 2020, totalling ₹14.89 lakh.

In addition, she had also secured employment as a junior clerk in the office of the Additional Director General of Police, CID Crime (Railways) on compassionate grounds following her husband’s death.

The CID Crime office reportedly initiated an internal inquiry after receiving information about her remarriage. In 2020, the office wrote to the pension department, which subsequently suspended her pension and began a departmental investigation.

Following the probe, a formal communication was sent from Gandhinagar to initiate legal action against Dakshaben. Acting on this, Treasury Officer Hardikkumar Prajapati lodged a complaint at the Karanj police station.

Police said a case has been registered and further investigation is underway to determine how the accused managed to continue receiving the pension for years despite annual verification requirements.