India, Oct. 21 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked a Pune-based Defence Ministry employee in a corruption case for allegedly fraudulently misappropriating funds of Rs.27.72 lakh belonging to an employees' cooperative credit society. It was alleged that the accused misappropriated the funds using forged signatures.

The CBI registered a case recently against P Kumar, a lower division clerk, Controllerate of Quality Assurance (Engineering Equipment), Ministry of Defence (DGQA), Pune, based on a complaint from a senior Defence ministry officer. "The complaint had alleged that the accused, in the capacity of being the secretary of the CQAE employees' cooperative credit society limited, Aundh Camp, Pune, from April 18 to Ju...