- By Akansha Pandey
- Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:33 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
A man from Bhind, Madhya Pradesh, who works as a cook at a roadside eatery (dhaba), has received a notice from the Income Tax Department regarding transactions worth Rs 46 crore. The shocking part is that these transactions took place in a bank account that he had completely forgotten about.
An investigation revealed that seven years ago, a supervisor from Bihar had opened an account in his name at a PNB branch in Uttam Nagar West, Delhi. A company named Shaurya International Traders then used this account to carry out crores worth of illegal transactions. The victim has filed a fraud complaint at the Siraul police station in Gwalior.
According to the station in-charge, Govind Bagoli, the complaint has been received and is being examined. In his statement to the police, the cook, Ravindra Singh Chauhan, explained that he used to work at a toll plaza on the Gwalior bypass in July 2017. A supervisor there, Shashi Bhushan Rai from Buxar, Bihar, lured him to Delhi with the promise of an extra income of up to Rs 5,000 per month in addition to his PF money. On November 12, 2019, he and three other boys were taken to a Punjab National Bank branch in Uttam Nagar West, Delhi, where an account was opened in his name.
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When no extra money came even after eight to ten months, Ravindra went to Delhi to close the account. The bank official told him that he would need permission from the GST branch to close it. When he spoke to Shashi Bhushan about this, the supervisor assured him that he would get the account closed himself. In 2023, the toll plaza's contract ended, Ravindra lost his job, and he eventually forgot about the account.
Fraud Uncovered Through A Notice In English
The victim further explained that on April 9, 2025, a letter arrived at his home, which was written in English. Since no one could understand it, they forgot about it. But when a second notice arrived on July 25, he showed the paper to a lawyer he knew in the neighborhood. The lawyer identified it as a notice from the Income Tax Department.
Upon looking into it, they discovered that besides his account in Bhind, another account in his name was active in Delhi, which was linked to Shaurya Trading Company.
It was through this account that transactions worth Rs 46 crore had been made. The account still has a balance of Rs 13 lakh. When the victim called the supervisor, Shashi Bhushan Rai, about this, he washed his hands of the matter, claiming that he himself had been a victim of a similar fraud and is currently working in a private company in Patna, Bihar.
