Haryana police book bank officials in fraud case

Fatehabad, Aug 26 (UNI) The police today registered a criminal case of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy against four persons, including two bank officials for allegedly withdrawing money from the account of a person by forging documents.

Earlier, the Chief Judicial Magistrate Lal Chand Kamboj had yesterday directed the police to book these persons after Prem Chand, a resident of village Ahelisadar had filed a criminal complaint in the court.

In his criminal complaint Prem Chand, an aged person in his seventies, had alleged that the branch manager and an official of the local branch of a nationalised bank had fraudulently withdrawn Rs 1.05 lakh from his account in connivance with two others.

He said he had Rs 1,71,536 in his account on July 30, when he withdrew a sum of Rs 50,000-00 from the account.

When he went to withdraw a further sum of Rs 50,000-00 from his account on August 17, he was told that he did not have the requisite money in his account and that his balance was only Rs 16536-00.

When he inquired the matter from the bank officials, they informed that they received an application purported to be written by him (Prem Chand) authorising one Pawan Kumar to collect his chequebook. Prem Chand had purportedly written in his application that he could not come to the bank due to a fractured leg.

The bank officials claimed, they received cheques signed by him on August 6 and 7 and someone who presented the cheques withdrew an amount of Rs 1.05 from the account.

Prem Chand alleged in his complaint that neither he had never suffered a fracture, nor he had authorised anyone to collect his cheque book or payment from the bank on his behalf.

The police had booked the Branch Manager, another official of the bank, Pawan Kumar and another under sections 419, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the IPC and begun investigations.

UNI