Clerk Arrested for Rs 40 Lakh ESIC Fraud in Noida

Rajat Bharti, a clerk at the Employees' State Insurance Corporation in Noida, was arrested for embezzling Rs 40 lakh. He allegedly replaced legitimate beneficiaries on the ESIC portal with fake identities to fraudulently claim Super Special Treatment benefits. Legal proceedings are underway.

The Noida police on Monday arrested Rajat Bharti, a clerk of the Employees' State Insurance Corporation, for allegedly embezzling around Rs 40 lakh by replacing the names of legitimate beneficiaries on the ESIC portal with fake identities, officials revealed.

The Crime Branch, along with Sector 58 police station officials, conducted a detailed investigation leading to Bharti's arrest. ''The accused removed the names of legitimate insured individuals from the portal and replaced them with fake identities to fraudulently claim Super Special Treatment (SST) benefits,'' a police spokesperson reported.

Bharti, a resident of Dayalpur in Delhi, worked as a lower division clerk at the ESIC sub-regional office in Noida. Using his user ID and password, Bharti allegedly deleted the names of genuine insured persons and substituted them with bogus entries, facilitating expensive medical treatments under SST. He then collected payments from the ESIC to hospitals on the panel, personally collecting money from patients.

''Bharti exploited his position for personal gain, manipulating the system to divert funds meant for genuine claimants,'' the official stated. An FIR has been lodged on charges of criminal breach of trust, forgery of documents, cheating, and under provisions of the Information Technology Act. Further legal proceedings are underway.

(With inputs from agencies.)