Bengaluru: Bank employee arrested for unauthorised mortgage of customers' gold worth Rs 3.5 crore
Bengaluru (PTI): A deputy manager of a bank was arrested for allegedly misappropriating and unauthorisedly mortgaging 2,780 grams of gold ornaments belonging to multiple customers, worth over Rs 3.5 crore, police said on Saturday.
The alleged fraud came to light after the bank’s chief manager filed a complaint against the accused at the Girinagar police station on February 5.
Citing the complaint, police said the accused allegedly removed 2,780 grams of customers’ gold ornaments from bank lockers without informing higher authorities and pledged them with a finance company.
During the investigation, officials found prima facie evidence suggesting that the accused had spent the proceeds on online betting, police said.
"The accused deputy bank manager has been arrested in this case. We are trying to recover the gold. So far, about 700 grams have been recovered," said Lokesh B Jagalasar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South).
"We are not getting the desired cooperation from the financiers. We will move the court and initiate appropriate legal action against them. Further investigation is underway," he added.
Police also advised customers to verify the safety and status of their ornaments kept in bank lockers.
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Body of Bihar Police personnel found hanging in barracks in Patna
Patna (PTI): The body of a Bihar Police personnel was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in his barracks here, a senior officer said on Sunday.
Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Kartikeya Sharma said a havildar with Bihar State Armed Police-1, popularly known as "Gorkha battalion", died allegedly by suicide as he had been suffering from some ailment.
The deceased left behind "two suicide notes", one in Hindi and the other in his native language Nepali.
"From the suicide notes, it appears that Navraj Sunar, the deceased havildar, had been suffering from some ailment which had caused him much mental anguish and may have driven him to take the extreme step," the SSP said.
The body was being sent to the native village of the deceased in Nepal after a post-mortem examination, while further investigations were on, with forensic experts inspecting the site of the incident.
