At the request of Haryana’s State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (SV&ACB), a Panchkula court on Wednesday issued production warrants for accused Swati Tomar, who allegedly received Rs 35 crore in her bank account, and accused Sonia, who allegedly received Rs 50 lakh in her bank account, in the Rs 150 crore Kotak Mahindra Bank scam.SV&ACB told the court that the main accused, deputy vice-president of the bank, Pushpender Singh, revealed that the e-mail ID associated with the legal and two illegal accounts of the Municipal Corporation (MC), Panchkula, was changed, and then a mobile number XXXXXXX924 was added to it to obtain fraudulent confirmations of bank accounts. After that funds were siphoned off. SV&ACB said that co-accused Rajat Dahra, who allegedly received Rs 70 crore in the scam, provided the SIM to Pushpender Singh for the mobile number linked to the Panchkula MC accounts.In addition to Swati Tomar and Sonia, the production warrants for the accused Dileep Raghav, former relationship manager at Kotak Mahindra Bank, and for Rajat Dahra were also sought, and the court granted them.SV&ACB sought to obtain handwriting samples from the accused to match them to the bank documents and cheques.SV&ACB told a Panchkula court on Wednesday that, using forged cheques and RTGS, the main accused, Pushpender Singh, who was working as the branch manager of the Kotak Mahindra branch in Sector 11, Panchkula, transferred government funds of the Municipal Corporation, Panchkula, worth Rs 35 crore to two accounts held by Swati Tomar. One of her accounts is with ICICI Bank, and the other is with IDFC Bank.She further allegedly transferred the money via cheques to other people’s accounts. To match her handwriting on cheques, writing samples were required. She was first arrested on April 6, and allegedly confessed to her crime. She was then sent to judicial custody on April 7.Similarly, Sonia, a resident of Kharar (SAS Nagar), allegedly received Rs 50 lakh into her Yes Bank account from the Municipal Corporation, Panchkula, through two forged cheques, one for Rs 22.70 lakh and another for Rs 27.30 lakh. A total of Rs 50 lakh was transferred on September 6, 2021. She further allegedly transferred the money to other people’s accounts through cheques.Her handwriting samples were required to match it with those on cheques. She was first arrested on April 23 and sent to judicial custody on April 26.According to SV&ACB’s FIR dated March 24, the MC was maintaining 16 Fixed Deposits (FDs) with the Kotak Mahindra Bank branch in Sector 11, Panchkula. These deposits amounted to Rs 145.03 crore, with a maturity value of Rs 158.02 crore.Of these, 11 FDs worth Rs 59.58 crore matured on February 16. When MC officials approached the bank regarding the matured deposits, they were provided with statements that did not match one another or the MC’s records, particularly for FDs, raising suspicions of large-scale financial irregularities.The scam had continued since 2018, SV&ACB said in court.The investigating agency has also added sections of the IPC for forgery, cheating, criminal breach of trust, and criminal conspiracy, along with Section 46 of the Banking Regulation Act, which prescribes a punishment of up to three years for wilfully giving false bank statements, in the case.Regarding Rajat Dahra, SV&ACB told the court that Pushpender Singh had revealed that Dahra used to help him and Dileep Raghav in making forged papers, and his writing samples were required. He needed to be questioned on the mobile number he provided, said the investigating agency.On Raghav, SV&ACB said that he was involved in procuring forged stamps of MC’s officials, opening illegal bank accounts, submitting forged bank statements, forging debit letters to siphon off funds, and changing e-mail ID for sending bank statements to Panchkula MC.