Bank manager booked for demanding sex favours from farmer's wife in exchange for crop loan
Mumbai, June 23: A branch manager of Central Bank of India in Buldhana district has been booked for allegedly demanding sexual favours from a farmer's wife seeking crop loan on Friday.
The woman had accompanied her husband to the bank where they had applied for a crop loan at Datala in the Malakapur Tehsil on Thursday morning, police said.
Branch manager Rajesh Hivase sought the woman's contact details for processing loan after which he called her up and allegedly used obscene language and demanded sexual favours, they said.
Later,
Hivase
sent
a
peon
to
the
woman's
home,
asking
her
to
comply.
The
peon
allegedly
told
the
woman
that
Hivase
will
pass
the
required
farm
loan
and
also
extend
benefits
under
a
special
package
if
she
agreed.
The woman recorded the phone conversation and filed a complaint with the local police the same day, they said.
A complaint has been registered against the manager and the peon under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and also sections of the Prevention of Atrocities Act, they said.
Both the accused are absconding and efforts are on to nab them, the police said.
PTI