Kasaragod, Jun 29: The police have registered a case against a woman employee of the Kerala Gramin Bank's (KGB) Munnad branch here for allegedly swindling the bank of Rs. 1.61 lakh using ATM cards of three bank customers.
The Bedakam police registered case against bank peon Manjusha Raj, 27, who was suspended from service. It is said that the employee had returned the money to the bank.
Recently, core banking facility was put in place in KGB branches across the State. While the ATM cards of customers of other banks are despatched through post, cards of KGB customers are routed through the bank, manager C. Chindankutty said.
The woman employee managed to withdraw cash from three bank accounts using the password details that reached the bank in sealed envelopes attached to the ATM cards.
The incident came to light after a customer reached the bank to withdraw cash and noticed that his account did not have sufficient balance.
On initial verification, it was found that money had been withdrawn from three accounts even though the customers had not been issued ATM cards from the bank.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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