Chandigarh, Dec. 24 -- Two employees of the UT estate office have been booked for allegedly tampering with a property file by removing it after office hours and replacing original documents, officials said on Tuesday.

The accused have been identified as clerk Lalit Mohan and peon Lalit Kumar, both posted at the estate office. They have been booked under Section 61(2) (criminal intimidation), 238(B) (causing disappearance of evidence), 316(5) (criminal breach of trust), 318(4) (cheating involving property delivery or valuable securities), 336(3) (forgery for purpose of cheating), and 340(2) (fraudulently or dishonestly using forged documents or electronic records as genuine) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

A departmental action has also ...