Bangalore sales manager held for selling free Laptops meant for poor kids

Mangalore Today / ITV

Bangalore, Jan 24: Police have arrested Harsha Rangarajan, working as a sales manager for a reputed laptop manufacturing company, on charge of selling off latops meant for free distribution among poor children.
 
Nearly Rs 30 lakh cash and 567 new laptops were seized from Rangarajan, who was entrusted with the work of distributing the latops to poor children through three NGOs.

 
DCP P. Harsha said, police had information that Rangarajan was selling laptops worth Rs 60,000 each at 25 to 30 per cent discount.
 
The reputed firm had been implementing a Corporate Social Responsibility programme under which 900 laptops were to be distributed to poor children through three NGOs.
 
The company had entrusted this work to its sales manager Rangarajan, but the latter fudged documents to show that he had indeed given away the laptops to the NGOs.
 
Rangarajan has been sent to 14 days judicial custody.