SBI employee arrested in Tripura

Agartala, Jul 24: Tripura police has arrested a senior officer of State Bank of India (SBI) yesterday following allegations of cheating a customer in Meghalaya last year.

Police said the accused officer was identified as Bidhan Chandra Chakma, presently posted at Bijoy Kumar Chowmuhani branch of SBI Regional Manager office.

According to police, Mr Chakma embezzled the money of a customer who had deposited the amount for a cash certificate last year and immediately after the incident he got transferred to Agartala.

A case was registered with Magurhat police station of Meghalaya against Mr Chakma for misappropriation of the money, had been deposited for cash certificate by the customer.

Subsequently, Meghalaya police sought help of its Tripura counterpart to arrest the accused officer and West Agartala police arrested Mr Chakma last evening from his office.

He would be handed over to Meghalaya police, police added.

UNI