bengaluru a suspended bbmp official who allegedly forged the signature of a senior civic official to get himself posted to another department of the civic body was arrested on wednesday anand murthy was earlier suspended on charges of diverting palike funds in his mothers name toi had on april 24 published a report titled 62 fake bills raised to pay rs 14 crore to woman 19 files deleted from bbmp system read also62 fake bills raised to pay rs 14 crore to woman 19 files deleted from bbmp systembengaluru the bbmp is breaking its head over a phantom woman identified as sundaramma fraudsters have allegedly created her identity and attempted to cheat the civic agency of rs 14 crore while 19 files proposing to release rs 13 lakh to sundaramma towards health and salary arrears have beenthe bills were raised by murthy in his mother sundarammas name by creating fake ones for health expenditure following the revelation murthy was suspended in mayhowever bbmp employees working in the administration wing got the shock of their life when they were tipped off that murthy was working in bbmp health office jayanagar ravi puttraju and raveendra all working as firstdivision assistants in the administration department visited the jayanagar office and confirmed that the person was murthy the trio found that murthys wife padma who isnt even a civic body employee too was working in the bbmps health wing with her husband the same day deputy commissioner administration db natesh filed a complaint with ulsoor gate police station stating his signature had been forged by murthy who was under suspension the three employees caught hold of murthy and brought him to the police station in bbmps prahari vehicle and he was arrested his wife meanwhile managed to escapein his complaint natesh said murthy is a seconddivision assistant and under suspension he was suspended on charges of creating documents and claiming fake bills when he was working in rajarajeshwarinagar zones assistant controller finance office he created another document in the name of anand on june 28 2019 and created his own transfer order from bommanahalli zone to jayanagar medical officerhealths office he also managed to promote his own post from first division clerk to manager and even reported to jayanagar office which is a criminal offencelater an investigation confirmed that murthy had been working in the jayanagar office since june 28 he had forged a document natesh had signed and issued as an official circular declaring fourth saturdays as holidayswife too joined workmurthys wife padma too joined the bbmp health office in jayanagar on june 28 murthy forged the same circular issued by natesh to post his wife padma at jayanagar office from the bommnahalli health office though she is not even a bbmp employee natesh told toi it was really shocking that a suspended employee could forge his signature to get posted in some other department