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| J&K bank terms DSP's statement as false, irresponsible | | | Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Mar 15: The officials of Jammu and Kashmir bank have condemned the statement issued by DSP (hqrs) Abrar Chowdhary to the press in which he claimed that Rs 40 lakh had been fraudulently withdrawn from the bank accounts of customers by its employees.
The DSP had also claimed that police had conducted a raid in Kishtwar branch of the bank, sealed a portion of it and seized bank record.
Addressing a press conference here today, bank's cluster head for Kishtwar, Mohammad Maqbool Lone said the DSP's statement was not true.
He said it was not police, which had detected the Rs 40 lakh fraud in the bank, as had been claimed by the DSP, but it was the bank which had lodged complaint in this regard with police.
He said that it was the branch head, business unit, Kishtwar, who had lodged a complaint with police about the fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 5,85,500 by its associate executive Kuldeep Kumar Raina.
Lone said that on the basis of the bank complaint, the Kishtwar police had registered an an FIR under sections 420, 467, 468 and 409 of RPC.
He said that the police did not register the FIR on its own as was claimed by the DSP. The false and concoted news circulated to press by the DSP had lowered the bank bank image, he added.
He said that no record had been seized by police in this regard, as all record pertaining to this episode already stood submitted to the corporate headquarter of the bank. He said that after receiving the first complaint on November 5, 2011, from Yash Nath who complained about the illegal withdrawal of certain amount from his account No SB21704, the bank had initiated an inquiry into the allegations and after verifying them, initiated disciplinary action against the erring officer by dismissing his services vide order No HRDD/CHQ/2011/531 dated December 8, 2011.
He said that in order to restore the faith and confidence of affected account holders, the bank had already compensated them by crediting the entire amount claimed by them in their respective accounts.The accused had forged signatures and thumb impressions of account holders and fraudulently withdrawn Rs 2,98,500 on different dates. He had also made transfer entries of Rs 2,87,000 clandestinely from different accounts to his and his wife's J&K bank accounts at Kishtwar.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Asfar Mattoo, head of the bank's business unit here, also condemned DSP's statement. |
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