The Narmada District police booked an employee of Writer Business Services Private Limited, a cash management company, for the alleged Siphoning off Rs 5.25 crore pertaining to the daily cash collection from the Statue of Unity and its allied projects, a police official said on Wednesday. The complaint, filed by the manager of a Vadodara branch of HDFC bank, states that the money was allegedly siphoned off during the period between October 2018 and March 2020.

The imposing monument of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, also called the Statue of Unity, is a prominent tourist attraction in the state since it was inaugurated in October 2018. The money collected over one-and-a-half years by the Statue of Unity management at Kevadia in Narmada district was handed over to the cash collection agency, hired by a private bank in Vadodara, the official said.

Some staffers of the agency allegedly did not deposit Rs 5,24,77,375 into the bank accounts of the Statue of Unity authorities, Deputy Superintendent of Police Vani Dudhat said. The private bank's manager lodged an FIR at Kevadia police station on Monday night against unidentified persons working with the cash collection agency, she said.

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