Lucknow: Lucknow police registered an FIR against five named persons and several unidentified associates following a court order over alleged financial irregularities, misappropriation of trust funds, forgery and criminal conspiracy involving the Hind Charitable Trust, which runs the Hind Institute of Medical Sciences at Safedabad in Barabanki district.The FIR was lodged under the Lucknow East commissionerate and names Sunil Dutt Tripathi, Malay Mohan Sinha, Varun Srivastava, Brij Kishore Singh and Manvendra Singh. Police invoked provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita related to cheating, criminal breach of trust, forgery, use of forged documents and criminal conspiracy.The FIR was lodged by Dr Amod Kumar Sachan before the court of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM)-VIII, Lucknow. Acting on his application, the court directed police to register a case and investigate the allegations.According to the complaint, Dr Sachan and associates founded Hind Charitable Trust in 2004. It was alleged that Sunil Dutt Tripathi, appointed as an accountant in 2007, later introduced the complainant and vice-chairperson Dr Richa Mishra to Malay Mohan Sinha and Varun Srivastava, who were associated with a private bank. The complainant claimed the duo facilitated the opening of trust accounts and obtained documents, including a copy of the trust deed.Dr Amod Sachan alleged that the accused gradually gained control over the trust’s financial operations, while Tripathi, Sinha and Srivastava later conspired with Braj Kishore Singh and his son Manvendra Singh to divert crores of rupees belonging to the trust and its affiliated institutions to companies linked to them. It was also alleged that the accused acquired movable and immovable assets using those funds.The complainant said forged trust documents were used to operate bank accounts and implicate him and another trustee in a separate criminal case. He said he approached police in Aug but there was no action, which prompted him to move court.
