Money from the account of consumers in South Bihar Gramin Bank located at Asha Padri, Buxar Simri
Buxar: Even though the withdrawal of money from the accounts of consumers in South Bihar Gramin Bank, Asha Padri, Simri, was detected on Tuesday, but this game was going on for the last six months here. In the course of investigation, it has also come to the fore that to hide the scam, the former branch manager neither used to link anyone’s mobile number with the account nor updated anyone’s account. So far, the amount of people whose money has been missing from their accounts is more than five crores.
In fact, every man has faith in public sector banks that his money will be safe there. Some had deposited money in the bank thinking that it would work on time by adding money for the future of the daughter’s marriage. When it is needed, money is missing from their account. The matter came to light when, Kalavati Devi, a consumer, had reached the bank on Monday to withdraw some money from the bank. There, as soon as he filled the withdrawal form, the cashier told that there is no money in his account. On hearing this, the woman said that 40 thousand rupees were already in her account and 9 thousand again she had given it to the branch manager for deposit. When the cash withdrawn from the account was checked by the cashier, it was found that 40 thousand rupees have been deposited in the branch manager’s account and 9 thousand rupees have not been deposited. By then it was evening time and the branch manager Ravi Ranjan hurriedly closed the bank and left from there due to fear of opening the scam. Meanwhile, when the woman mentioned this to many other people of the village, everyone started worrying about their money and as soon as Tuesday morning, they started reaching the bank one after the other. On the second day when the branch manager Ravinanjan was searched, his phone was found switched off and no information about him was found. Information not found. Meanwhile, on checking the account of another consumer of the village, Satish Kumar, it was found that Rs 11.40 lakh is missing from his account as well. After this, as soon as the scam came to light in the investigation of consumers one after the other, the employees immediately informed the regional manager of the bank, Vikas Kumar Bhagat, after which he immediately appointed another branch manager Dharmendra Kumar to take charge of the branch. sent. Meanwhile, the regional manager said that a team is being sent to investigate it on Wednesday. After which he immediately sent another branch manager Dharmendra Kumar to take charge of the branch. Meanwhile, the regional manager said that a team is being sent to investigate it on Wednesday. After which he immediately sent another branch manager Dharmendra Kumar to take charge of the branch. Meanwhile, the regional manager said that a team is being sent to investigate it on Wednesday.
Money was deposited for daughter’s marriage
After the withdrawal of Rs 9 lakh from the account, Vijay Lakshmi of Nagwan village, crying, told that he had deposited Rs 9 lakh in the bank by adding every paise for the daughter’s marriage. In the meantime, after the marriage was fixed, she was engaged in preparations, that in the meantime this scam has blown her senses that now how she will marry her daughter.
Confirmation of non-receipt of voucher in the bank
Satish Kumar Singh, a consumer of the village itself, had also gone to withdraw money from the bank for farming. When the matter came to his notice, he also got his account checked. It was found that ten lakhs have been withdrawn from his account on 9th November 2020 and 1.40 lakhs on 18th November. When he demanded a withdrawal voucher from the bank, it came to know that no one has any voucher in the bank. Thus, out of all the people whose accounts were checked, none of them were found to have vouchers in the bank.
Did not leave even a meager amount of 10 thousand
On Tuesday, when the customers started reaching the bank to get the check done, during the investigation it was found that there is no account from which the withdrawal has not been made. 15 lakh was withdrawn from someone’s account and up to 18 lakh was withdrawn from someone’s account. Not only this, even a small amount like ten thousand has not been released from the account of those who had less money in their account. So far, more than four dozen customers have been investigated for withdrawing money from their accounts, while a detailed investigation will reveal how many account holders’ money has been siphoned off.
passbook was not updated
Consumers present at the bank said that after coming to the bank for a long time, the passbook was not updated, stating that the printer was defective, due to which the customers could not get information about the status of their account. Not only this, many customers told that how many times they went to the bank to get the account attached to the mobile number, but till date their mobile number has not been linked to the account. Every time it was postponed saying that there was a technical fault.
money withdrawn from account
Among those whose account has been withdrawn, mainly 11.40 lakhs of Satish Kumar, 3.50 lakhs of Tuntun Yadav, one lakh of Shivji Yadav, 9 lakhs of Vijay Laxmi Devi, 1.23 lakhs of Ramji Tiwari, Dilip Tiwari. There are hundreds of customers including 5.40 lakhs, 2.55 lakhs of Surendra Prasad, whose full details we are unable to give here.
LDM also took cognizance of the incident, will go to investigate today
Confirming the incident, the bank’s regional manager Vikas Kumar Bhagat told that he has got information about the whole matter and tomorrow he is going to send the investigation team to the bank. Only after investigation can it be said that there has been a scam or there is some technical glitch. On the other hand, as soon as the matter came to the notice, Lead Bank Manager Buxar Anand Kumar Ojha called it a big bank scam and said that on Tuesday he himself would go to investigate it.
