Chandigarh, Feb. 26 -- Probing the Rs.590-crore IDFC First Bank fraud case, the Haryana State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau on Tuesday night arrested four people, including two former bank employees. Bureau director general (DG) Arshinder Singh Chawla said among the four arrested, Ribhav Rishi was the head of the bank's branch in Chandigarh's Sector 32 till six months ago when he left the job and Abhay, the bank's relationship manager, quit the job around August last year. Abhay's wife Swati Singla and her brother Abhishek Singla were also arrested. "Abhay's wife Swati, along with her brother, had set up a company Swastik Desh Projects, owning 75% and 25% stakes, respectively," Chawla said. The DG said preliminary investigations had revealed that about Rs.300 crore of government funds were transferred to Swastik Desh Projects's account in AU Small bank, leading to the four arrests. "We have discovered that out of Rs.590 crore, the aggregate amount currently under reconciliation and suspected to be fraudulently transferred, a large portion of money belonged to Haryana government departments. However, there are certain accounts of Chandigarh administration, which could also have been compromised though the amount is relatively less as compared to Haryana funds,'' Chawla said. He said tracking the money trail was a cumbersome time-consuming process and the agency was taking on board a chartered accountant to expedite investigations. The bureau chief said IDFC First Bank wanted to become a complainant in the case and had sought registration of case in Chandigarh and Mumbai. "However, since the swindled amount belonged to Haryana government, the state government intervened to inform Chandigarh and Mumbai police that a Haryana law enforcement agency will investigate the matter," Chawla said. An in-house inquiry conducted by a committee, constituted by the Haryana development and panchayats department on February 11 following detection of accounting mismatch, had found that IDFC First Bank furnished forged account statements purportedly to mislead the department officials. On the basis of the committee's inquiry report, the bureau had on Monday night registered a case against IDFC and AU Small Bank employees, alongside unidentified public servants and private persons, primarily in connection with alleged unauthorised financial transactions and suspected forgery involving government accounts maintained by the two banks under the Mukhya Mantri Gramin Awas Yojana 2.0. Chawla said investigation will however widen further and the agency will also scrutinise suspected fraudulent transactions worth Rs.590 crore involving certain other government department accounts also. The FIR registered at Panchkula police station invoked Section 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, pertaining to criminal misconduct by a public servant. The bureau also applied several provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS)...