According to the complaint filed by Prabhanjan Kumar, the authorised signatory of Uber India Systems Private Limited in April last year, Gera worked in the firm's driver operations team from August to December 2021 at its Sector-44 office. He was employed by the vendor company TeamLease Services Limited India and had resigned from Uber on December 19, 2021. Gera was responsible for the driver arrears function.

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"To avoid inconveniencing driver partners, a spreadsheet is automatically uploaded regularly. A large number of transactions were processed by this automated spreadsheet and Viney Gera was responsible for updating the details of the driver partner accounts to be paid. Viney Gera created and placed a number of non-genuine driver partner accounts in the spreadsheet," the app-based taxi firm said in its complaint.

Upon inquiry, the firm found that of the 388 fake drivers' profiles created by Gera, 191 profiles' IP address matched the IP address of Gera's office computer.

"... 191 cases out of 388 cases matched with the IP addresses used by Viney Gera to log into his work computer on the same day as the creation of the accounts.
"In the above manner, a total amount of Rs 1,17,03,033 has been fraudulently paid to these fake driver partners into only 18 bank accounts," read the complaint.

According to police, Gera has been booked under sections 408 (criminal breach of trust by servant), 420 (cheating), 477-A (falsification of accounts), and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC. "We are investigating the matter and the accused will be arrested as soon as possible," said Inspector Deepak Kumar, SHO, Sushant Lok Police Station.

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