kottayam the bsnl kottayam secondary switching area ssa came under the scanner after money paid as telephone charges was swindled by one of its employee though the bsnl officials say that only the particular individual who swindled over rs 22 lakh is involved in corruption and the involvement of more people in the finance and it departments is not ruled out m s hari divisional general manager said the vigilance wing of the bsnl has made an inquiry into the incident and has filed a preliminary report to the state head office in thiruvananthapuram the investigation of the case is likely to be handed over to the cbi initial probe revealed that rs 22 lakh has been swindled he said the official under question who is a woman was suspended on september 28 among the 11 ssas in the state the kottayam ssa was the only circle which ran into loss during the previous financial year which made the authorities to check the accounts it was found that the cash remitted in one particular counter in the customer care centre in ettumanoor was comparatively less it was found that the woman who managed the counter used to log in the name of another employee who was transferred to another place and used to collect bills which are more than rs 5000 from his account since the bsnl records showed that the bill was paid the phone connection of the customer was never cancelled while the woman allegedly pocketed the amount a retried official of bsnl said the passwords of staff in the finance section needs to be changed frequently and the it department is responsible for it moreover the password of a transferred person needed to be cancelled immediately kottayam sp m p dinesh said that though he received a complaint regarding this the investigation of the case was not under the jurisdiction of the local police as the person in question is a central government employee the case comes under the prevention of corruption act and a central agency may have to probe he said