According to a report appearing in the Times of India the illegal withdrawal was made almost a month after he was sworn in as a cabinet minister. He represents Jhajha Assembly constituency.

A couple of days back he had filed an FIR with Khaira police station in Jamui district under which the Maholi branch of Bank of Baroda falls. The police registered the fraud case under Sections 379, 420, 467, 468 and 471 of the IPC and are investigating the matter.

He had opened an account in that branch exclusively to deal with Assembly election expenses. After the election, Rs 1.50 lakh was left in the account. A few days back, when he went to the bank to withdraw the remaining amount, he was told that his account had a balance of just Rs 5,000.

Now it has been detected that one Roshan Kumar Singh is the culprit. He reportedly runs a general store at Chembur in Mumbai. The bank records showed Singh deposited a cheque for Rs 1.45 lakh in his account in the same bank`s Navi Mumbai branch. The minister said that he did not know this man.

The report said that the cheque containing fake signature of Raut was transferred to bank`s Maholi branch and money was credited to Singh`s account. It was further detected that one leaf of cheque bearing number 500669 had been stolen from the cheque book through which Rs 1.45 lakh was fraudulently withdrawn with minister`s forged signature.

Raut said that during the election campaign a lot of people had been visiting him and he had no idea how and when his cheque book passed into wrong hands and who did the fraud.

The cheat took out the second last cheque of the cheque book so that it could not be detected easily.
Raut said he had submitted his expenditure account to the Election Commission soon after the election was over.

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