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6 bank employees booked for Rs 7 crore fraud

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November 26, 2016

Thane, Nov 26: Seven persons, six of them employees of a co-operative bank here, have been booked for allegedly defrauding customers and the bank to the tune of around Rs 7 crore, police said today.

hand-cuffAn FIR in this regard was registered last evening and later the case transferred to the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) for further probe, Inspector G D Pingle of Chitalsar Police Station said.

The accused, including a branch manager, were booked under IPC sections related to cheating, forgery, dishonest misappropriation of property, criminal breach of trust, falsification of accounts and also provisions of the IT Act, one of them related to hacking of computer system, he said.

The alleged crime took place at Lok Puram branch of the CKP Co-operative Bank. The case was registered based on a complaint submitted by Raju Phanse, a Director of the bank.

These seven persons indulged in malpractices to defraud the bank's customers and the lender to the tune of Rs 6,92,19,047, said Phanse. According to the complaint, the accused tampered with the bank's computer systems and receipts of depositors and diverted funds from their accounts to a particular account to facilitate benefit of cash credit (short-term loan) to its holder.

They also opened a number of new accounts without following regulations and diverted funds deposited in them to this particular account held by Satyen Salva. The man who got benefit from the cash credit, which was beyond his eligibility, failed to repay the loan, thus cheating the bank and its customers, police said.

Those named in the FIR are Anjali Pisal (Branch Manager), Chandrashekar Karve (another senior officer), Unnati Thombre (clerk), Satish Jamble, Vikas Kubal and Narendra Jadhav (all peons) and Salva.

They tampered with the bank's computer system and software to facilitate these illegal transactions, police said, adding no arrest has been made.

The bank was under an administrator between 2012 and 2015 after the RBI dissolved its board following complaints of mismanagement in its functioning.

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March 15,2020

Mumbai, Mar 15: Three suspected coronavirus patients who were quarantined left a government hospital in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district on Saturday evening without informing anybody, the police said.

By late night, however, two of them returned to the Ahmednagar district civil hospital. Search was on for the third patient, a Topkhana police station officer said.

Earlier, two women and a man admitted to an isolation ward of the district hospital in Ahmednagar, left without informing the doctors, an officer said.

The civil surgeon contacted the Tophkhana police station in Ahmednagar city and sought polices help in tracing these persons, whose medical reports are awaited, the official added.

A person in Ahmednagar district is among the 31 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Maharashtra.

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January 2,2020

New Delhi, Jan 2: A 20-year-old man set his motorcycle on fire after he was challaned by the traffic police in south Delhi's Greater Kailash area on Wednesday, police said.

Vikas, a resident of Sangam Vihar, was challaned by the traffic police for riding the motorcycle without helmet, a senior police official said.

The traffic police challaned him and impounded the motorcycle, following which Vikas set the bike on fire, the officer said.

A case has been registered and the accused arrested, the officer added.

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February 6,2020

Kochi, Feb 6: A 46-year-old Thailand national was allegedly raped by two men here, following which they were arrested, police said on Thursday.

The accused hailing from a north Kerala district have been arrested on the basis of a complaint lodged by the woman.

Police said the accused-- Mohammed Insaf and his friend Ansaruddin from Kondotty in Malappuram district were arrested after recording the statement of the victim.

The woman from Thailand had been a Facebook friend of Insaf for the last seven months after she enrolled her child in a school in Malappuram district.

The woman who came from Bangkok recently to visit her child and was staying in a hotel here.

When Insaf came to meet the woman, he was accompanied by his friend Ansaruddin and both allegedly raped the woman at the hotel room, police said.

All formalities including medical examination of the woman were completed, police said.

The accused will be produced before the court on Thursday, they added.

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