| Corruption charges framed against Bank of Baroda's chief manager, others | | Manager connived with credit officer, patwari, lawyer to fraudulently sanction Rs 74 lakh loan | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 7: Special Judge Anti-corruption (CBI cases), Vinod Chatterji Koul today ordered the framing of corruption charges against a chief manager of Bank of Baroda's Gandhi Nagar branch and others.
The charges were framed under section 120-B read with sections 420, 468 and 471 of RPC and section 5(2) read with section 5(1)(d) of J&K Prevention of Corruption Act 2006 against Tilak Raj Dogra, then chief manager of Gandhi Nagar branch of Bank of Baroda, bank's credit officer Jaswant Singh, patwari Des Raj, and Manzoor Hussain, son of Abdul Rashid of Vidhata Nagar, Bhatindi.
According to the CBI case, a housing loan of Rs 74 lakh was obtained by Manzoor Hussain from Bank of Baroda, Gandhi Nagar, on May 2, 2007 under BOB VYAPAR Scheme and showed sale purchase of bee-keeping to avail the loan and a plot of 15 kanals under khasra No 902 min, khata No 294 min and khewat No 15 min at Kartholi, Samba, was mortgaged with the bank.
After preparation of the pre-sanction Inspection Report on May 20, 2007, Jaswant, allegedly in connivance with Dogra and valuer H R Phonsa, obtained a Valuation Report of the property mortgaged for exact valuation of Rs 166.50 lakh on May 23, 2007 to favour the borrower in sanctioning of the loan.
Dogra was alleged to have already obtained a favourable Legal Scrutiny-cum-Non Encumbrance Certificate from advocate V K Chopra on May 24, 2007 and the loan was sanctioned by Dogra on May 26, 2007. But as per the May 6, 2007 sale deed of 15 kanals of land at Kartholi, value per kanal was Rs 3 lakh. The property was found to be a Gair Mumkin Kassi land and was not a commercial or residential land. Navneet Gupta, independent valuer, inspected the mortgaged land and submitted in his report that the property was an open land in the form of nallah and khad where water was flowing, as such the value of land could not be assigned.
In criminal conspiracy with co-accused, a May 29, 2007 letter No BR/GNR/ADV/29 was shown to havr brrn sent by Dogra to tehsildar, Samba, through the borrower for recording the bank lien in revenue record and a forged entry of the lien was managed on the back of the said letter on August 31, 2007 to show that the bank lien was got marked but in fact no such entry of the lien was marked in favour of Bank of Baroda in concerned revenue records and the fake lien entry on the back side of the letter was prepared by forging the signatures of the concerned patwari and tehsildar. Des Raj, who was posted as patwari in the office of Assistant Commissioner, Nazool, Jammu, on August 31, 2007 and not at Kartholi. |
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