Arunachal Pradesh Police Arrests SBI Deputy Bank Manager in Aalo

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Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh police arrested a bank manager for fraudulently withdrawing money from the accounts of customers having an account in his bank, police informed on Friday.

The West Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh police on Thursday arrested Deputy Manager of SBI Aalo branch, Bikash Ranjan Hajong Ray, who was absconding since last month to evade arrest, police said.

Ray is a resident of Hawakhana village in Tura under West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya.

According to police, a case was registered at Aalo police station on July 30 based on a complaint by one Yanya Koje, an employee of General Hospital Aalo wherein she informed that during March this year, while she updated her passbook at the bank, she noticed that an amount of Rs 4 lakh withdrawn and debited from her account and some cash correction of Rs 40,000 was also made.

After frequent inquiry in the bank by the lady, it was revealed that the unauthorized withdrawal of the amount was illegally made by Ray, who was holding the charge of accountant and cash officer through the withdrawal voucher without her knowledge.

However, she approached Ray requesting him to refund the money.

On May 17 last an amount of Rs 3,60,000 was re-credited in her account and again on July 18, to her utter surprise, the same amount was withdrawn and taken back without her knowledge by the same person, police said.

On July 23, when the lady went to bank to enquire into the matter, it was learnt that the person had went out of the town without informing the bank authority and his whereabouts was not known. The deputy manager had also fraudulently withdrawn an amount of Rs 2, 20,000 from the account of another customer Tomar Mayi on July 18 last, the police added.

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