Salary Fraud Discovered by AI Audit in Chhattisgarh

A salary fraud , nearly two crore rupees worth it turned out, that slipped under the radar for almost three years. It only surfaced after some kind of AI audit allegedly dug it up. This whole thing led to the arrest of three police constables over in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district.
It all kicked off during a government check. They used Artificial Intelligence tools to look through salary records for about two thousand people. Apparently, this was actually the first time the police department had ever tried using AI for such an audit. Strange stuff happening behind the scenes, really.
The three guys caught? Girish Rai, Rajkumar Katlam, and Hemant Mathew. Rai, for instance, he was posted in the salary section at the Superintendent of Police office in Jagdalpur. He was the one handling those salary bills.
Officials said Rai allegedly messed with the digital records before they were finalized. He supposedly bumped up his own pay and that of the other two constables by just tweaking the electronic files. This alleged cheating, it seems, ran from October 2023 right up until May 2026. They pulled out between one point five crore and two crore rupees.
Why did this get missed for so long? Well, the officials pointed out that police salary expenses are always shifting around. Transfers happen, new postings, staff numbers change constantly. Investigators felt like these normal fluctuations let the fraud slip right through. Some small monthly increases were made to salaries, which is how it managed to hide itself from everyone for ages.
The real snag came when auditors finally looked at everything using those AI tools. The discrepancies only showed up after crunching that huge volume of salary data. It was too much manual work; the system just couldn't handle it all easily.
Bastar SP Shalabh Kumar Sinha said the department opted for AI because the sheer amount of data made manual checking just impossible, you know? Things got flagged only when the computers analyzed it this way.
The trio is now booked under the new Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, BNS. The charges are cheating, forgery, criminal breach of trust, and stealing government money. They were brought before a court and now they’re in custody for fourteen days. It’s just the start, I guess.
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