AGRA: Four employees of Punjab National Bank’s Kamla Nagar branch were booked by New Agra police, for allegedly siphoning off several lakhs of rupees from customer account.
Identified as Anil Bansal, Sanjeev Agrawal, Rajkumar Gupta and Deepmala, the four bank employees were booked under IPC sections 120 B (punishment of criminal conspiracy), 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will, etc), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document).
The FIR was lodged on the basis of a written complaint filed by a Kamla Nagar-based footwear trader, Mukesh Kumar Goyal. He said, “On May 21 morning, I deposited a cheque of Rs 7,29,100 in the bank in order to pay my Haryana-based client through RTGS (Real time gross settlement). By evening, the money was supposed to be received in the client’s account. Bbut when he denied receiving the sum, I went to the bank make inquiries. I was shocked to learn that the amount had been debited from my account but it was not credited to the client’s account. There was no trace of the withdrawn money. The manager of the bank too did not give a satisfactory answer.”
Goyal said, “I often wired money through RTGS from the bank but this was the first time that money was siphoned off under a criminal conspiracy hatched by bank staff.”
Anuj Kumar, station house officer of New Agra, said, “We are investigating the matter but are yet to get satisfactory answers from bank employees. But soon we will crack the case.”
Earlier in January, employees of HDFC Bank’s Sanjay Place branch, along with some outsiders, men, siphoned off Rs 98 lakh from a local businessman’s account.
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