CBI Chargesheets 19 More, Including 6 IAS Officers, in ₹504-Crore Haryana Funds Scam

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a third chargesheet in the alleged misappropriation of Haryana government funds worth Rs 504 crore, bringing 19 more accused into the case, including six Haryana-cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers. The latest filing was made on 2 September 2026 before the Special CBI Court in Panchkula, and takes the total number of people chargesheeted in the matter to 37.

The agency said it has so far arrested 26 accused, carried out 54 searches and recovered incriminating material, including gold valued at about Rs 20 crore. The case, which the CBI says involves a planned diversion of public money through false and layered banking transactions, continues to be investigated for the full scope of the alleged fraud and the recovery of proceeds.

Among those named in the new chargesheet are six serving or former Haryana-cadre IAS officers: Mohd. Shayin, then Managing Director of Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited (HPGCL); Saket Kumar, then Commissioner and Secretary in the Development and Panchayats Department; Pardeep Kumar, then Member Secretary of the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB); Vineet Garg, then Chairman of the HSPCB; Ram Kumar Singh, then Commissioner of Municipal Corporation, Panchkula; and Pankaj Agarwal, then Chairman of the Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board.

Three of those officers — Pardeep Kumar, Ram Kumar Singh and Pankaj Agarwal — had already been arrested earlier in the probe. The latest filing also names three officials of IDFC First Bank, one official of AU Small Finance Bank and nine other Haryana government officials.

The bank officials named in the chargesheet are Shamim Ahmed Dar, Sudha Goyal and Kuldeep Singh of IDFC First Bank, and Charanjeet Singh Randhawa of AU Small Finance Bank. The other government officials listed by the agency are Deepti Kaushik and Rajesh Goyal of HPGCL, Prince Sharma of the Development and Panchayats Department, Saurav Kumar and Parveen Kumar of HSPCB, Surender Jain of Municipal Corporation Panchkula, and Surinder Kaur, Amit Kumar and Jugal Kishor of the Haryana Labour Welfare Board.

According to the CBI, the accused public servants, in coordination with officials of the two private banks, devised a scheme under which funds belonging to eight Haryana government departments and organisations were moved from empanelled banks into designated branches of IDFC First Bank and AU Small Finance Bank. Accounts were then opened in those branches as part of the alleged conspiracy. The agency says these transfers were made in violation of the Haryana Finance Department’s guidelines on financial prudence and fraud prevention.

The CBI alleges that once the money was routed into those accounts, it was siphoned off through fraudulent transactions, sent to unrelated third parties, layered through multiple bank accounts and converted into cash, causing wrongful enrichment to the accused. The agency has pegged the total amount involved at Rs 504 crore.

The eight departments and organisations said to have been affected are the Department of Panchayat, the Municipal Corporations of Panchkula and Kalka, the Haryana School Shiksha Pariyojna Parishad, the Haryana Labour Welfare Board, the Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board, the Haryana State Pollution Control Board and Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited.

The accused have been charged with offences including criminal conspiracy, cheating, destruction of evidence, forgery, using false documents as genuine, falsification of accounts, criminal breach of trust and abetment under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with bribery and criminal misconduct under the Prevention of Corruption Act. CBI spokesperson Beena Yadav said the investigation had established a planned sequence of fraudulent transactions.

The probe was taken over by the CBI from the Haryana State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau after a request from the state government. The agency has also taken over two related matters involving Chandigarh entities — Chandigarh Smart City Limited and the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh, and the Chandigarh Renewable Energy and Science and Technology Promotion Society. Chargesheets have already been filed in those cases as well.

All three cases remain under further investigation against other suspects, with the CBI saying it is continuing efforts to trace the complete money trail and recover the alleged proceeds of the fraud. The chargesheet filed against the serving and former IAS officers cannot be taken cognisance of by the trial court until the competent authorities grant the required prosecution sanctions.

The allegations remain unproven in court, and the accused are entitled to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.