Fraud in SBI branch

GURDASPUR, June 12: Routine checking of accounts by an employee led to unearthing of a fraud committed in the Tibri branch of State Bank of ...

GURDASPUR, June 12: Routine checking of accounts by an employee led to unearthing of a fraud committed in the Tibri branch of State Bank of India (SBI), here last year.

Stating this today, SSP Gaurav Yadav said when bank employee Kulwant Singh was checking a ledger of savings bank accounts, he found a portion of ledger leaf of account SB-14205 torn. When he informed the branch manager Soma Pathania, she requisitioned the record of the account but address of the account holder was again found missing arousing suspicion. The address mentioned on the card of specimen signature of the account holder turned out to be fake.

The account holder as mentioned on card was Rohit Mahajan, son of Bishan Das of canal department, Gurdaspur. Bank employee Surinder Kumar Choudhary had identified the account holder and he was being questioned, the SSP added.

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Police investigation revealed that account holder deposited Rs 80,000 vide his cheque no 3,39,237 on April 7 last year in his account. The cheque drawn on Punjab National Bank at Qadian was sent through Matharu Courier Service to Qadian for clearing.

SBI credited the amount after getting it cleared through clearing number 23 but police on verification found that Qadian bank had neither cleared any such cheque nor sent any invoice informing about the clearance.

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