Legal Question in Employment Law in India

I was working as a "Technical Architect" for a company that manufactures Handheld computer devices, from August, 2008 till February, 2012. I was heading a section of a corporate project that was under taken by the company. My salary was paid in full during the initial months of my service. But starting from 2009 the company started paying partial salary to us employees, after assuring us that as soon as the current project would be over, the company would pay us all the pending amounts. The salary was paid partly in Cash and partly credited to my bank Salary account. For the cash payments, the Accountant had me sign stamped vouchers.

As mentioned, the salary payments were not regular throughout 2009,2010,2011 and 2012. I resigned from the job in February 2012. At the time I was paid a lump sum amount after I signed a voucher which stated that all the pending amounts have been settled. On further scrutiny of my receipts and my own personal accounts, I found that I have not received the amount of seven vouchers that were with the company accountant. I have strong conviction that those are forged ones, with my signature being done by somebody other than me. I informed the Managing director of the company about this. But he is not buying into my complaint, and maintains that none of the vouchers are fake. Neither did he agree to my request to entrust an external professional agency to verify the the authenticity of the signed vouchers.

Some other information regarding the company is that:-

The company offered PF and other statutory deductions in my appointment

letter. Even though their employee strength is more than 100, they

have not yet registered with the Provident fund department and not

giving any of the employees PF, ESI or any statutoty requirements.

Also they are not deducting Tax at source (FORM 16) for employees

coming under tax bracket. All these they have mentioned in the

appointment letter but not fulfilled.

The loss of amount is substantial for me. What am I to do now to get the vouchers verified and eventually get the money that I have lost?

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