Early Times Report
Pulwama, Feb 2: Police has constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the much hyped Kissan Credit Cards (KCC) loan fraud in a local bank branch at Pulwama, Kashmir that reportedly surfaced last month.
As per case, atleast 23 KCC loan cases from the bank have so far been found to be sanctioned without the knowledge of the account holders.
Giving details the case, District police authorities stated that last month a lady resident of Pathan, Pulwama approached Police Station Pulwama with a report that the Elaquai Dehati Bank, Branch Pulwama has served her a notice for non-payment of KCC Loan that she has neither applied for nor availed.
Taking cognizance, the Pulwama police have registered a case FIR No. 20/2015 u/s 419, 420 ,467, 468, 471 RPC in this regard and further keeping in view the sensitivity of the case a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under the supervision of DySP (Hqrs) Pulwama was constituted to further probe the case.
According to police, the SIT while perusing the records of the bank called in all the non-performing beneficiaries of KCC loans issued by the bank Branch during the year 2013-14. "97 non-performing KCC loan accounts beneficiaries were summoned to appear before the investigating team to find out the facts, police spokesperson said adding, " out of 97 non-performing accounts, so far 57 beneficiaries have reported before the SIT and among them 23 beneficiaries revealed that they have never applied for such loan in particular from the said Branch of the bank."
During the investigation, it was surfaced that some of the anonymous (Benami) accounts also existed in the Bank Branch.Police spokesperson said the investigation of the case is on and police expects a significant breakthrough in near future. |
