Chandigarh, April 2 -- Three days after the arrest of CREST project director Sukhwinder Singh Abrol in the Rs.83-crore fraud case, the Chandigarh Police on Wednesday arrested an accountant, Sahil Kukkar, as the probe into the alleged siphoning of funds gained pace.

A resident of Sector 78, Mohali, and originally hailing from Fazilka, Punjab, Kukkar joined the investigation on Tuesday. But during interrogation, he failed to clarify or justify multiple transactions amounting to crores that were funnelled into shell firms in connivance with Abrol, leading to his arrest.

Kukkar was produced before a local court and remanded to three-day police custody. Abrol, who was arrested on March 30, remains in five-day police remand.

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