PUNE: A woman's mistake of signing on some documents in a co-operative bank following the advice of an employee of the financial institution after an agent took her there cost her Rs6.36 lakh recently.
Forging her signature, the amount was siphoned off her savings account in the co-operative bank on Karve Road. The Kothrud police has booked an agent and some unidentified employee of the co-operative bank for cheating and misappropriation after the 53-year-old woman complained Rs6.36 lakh was siphoned off from her account by forging her signature.
According to the police, the woman's husband passed away in 2012. She had some money with her and was routinely depositing cash in a recurring deposit (RD) account.
After the demise of her husband, the agent took her to the bank and introduced her to an employee. The suspects asked her to sign on some documents for transferring money from her RD account — after the sum matured — to her savings account. A few years on, the suspects forged her signature, transferred her money from the RD account to her saving account and then withdrew Rs6.36 lakh from her savings account.
The victim claimed that the bank officer and the agent were hand-in-glove and cheated her. The incident came to light recently when she visited the bank and checked her account.
Sub-inspector Digambar Jakhade of the Kothrud police said the woman was the owner of a prominent vegetarian restaurant on Jungli Maharaj Road. He said the woman regularly handed over cash for her recurring deposit account to a pigmy agent. He kept on depositing the cash in her account. She hardly visited the bank to check her account and other details.
Recently, she went to the bank and checked her RD account status, Jakhade said.
She realized that the cash was recently transferred to her savings account from her RD account without her permission. Then the suspects withdrew cash from the savings account without her knowledge, Jakhade said.
A source in a bank said the victim should not have signed on the documents and gave them to the agent or the bank employee. He advised people to frequently visit their bank branches and check the status of their accounts or link them to cellphone numbers for instant alerts.
Forging her signature, the amount was siphoned off her savings account in the co-operative bank on Karve Road. The Kothrud police has booked an agent and some unidentified employee of the co-operative bank for cheating and misappropriation after the 53-year-old woman complained Rs6.36 lakh was siphoned off from her account by forging her signature.
According to the police, the woman's husband passed away in 2012. She had some money with her and was routinely depositing cash in a recurring deposit (RD) account.
After the demise of her husband, the agent took her to the bank and introduced her to an employee. The suspects asked her to sign on some documents for transferring money from her RD account — after the sum matured — to her savings account. A few years on, the suspects forged her signature, transferred her money from the RD account to her saving account and then withdrew Rs6.36 lakh from her savings account.
The victim claimed that the bank officer and the agent were hand-in-glove and cheated her. The incident came to light recently when she visited the bank and checked her account.
Sub-inspector Digambar Jakhade of the Kothrud police said the woman was the owner of a prominent vegetarian restaurant on Jungli Maharaj Road. He said the woman regularly handed over cash for her recurring deposit account to a pigmy agent. He kept on depositing the cash in her account. She hardly visited the bank to check her account and other details.
Recently, she went to the bank and checked her RD account status, Jakhade said.
She realized that the cash was recently transferred to her savings account from her RD account without her permission. Then the suspects withdrew cash from the savings account without her knowledge, Jakhade said.
A source in a bank said the victim should not have signed on the documents and gave them to the agent or the bank employee. He advised people to frequently visit their bank branches and check the status of their accounts or link them to cellphone numbers for instant alerts.
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