This story is from June 3, 2021

Rs 2 crore siphoned off from accounts of rural bank customers in Buxar

Rs 2 crore siphoned off from accounts of rural bank customers in Buxar
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PATNA: The Dakshin Bihar Gramin Bank (DBGB) has started an inquiry after finding that more than Rs 2 crore was siphoned off from the bank accounts of a large number of customers from its branch at Asha Parari village under Simri panchayat in Buxar.
The matter came to light after one of the customers reached the branch to get his passbook updated on Monday and found that money had been debited from his account and transferred to some other accounts without his knowledge.
Some other customers soon reached the branch and found that their money was also siphoned off.
Buxar’s lead district manager Anand Kumar Ojha visited the branch on Wednesday. “The bank authorities have launched an internal inquiry. They will have to lodge an FIR in connection with the embezzlement,” he said, adding customers’ passbooks were not being printed at the branch and they were also not receiving SMS alerts.
Sources said the Asha Parari branch manager of the bank, Dr Ravi Shankar Kumar, was immediately placed under suspension on Monday and instruction was issued to DBGB Bhabhua regional manager Vikash Kumar Bhagat to get him arrested by police after lodging of an FIR with Simri police station. However, no FIR was lodged immediately and Ravi Shankar is currently traceless, bank sources said.
Sources said the modus operandi was to tell customers that the passbook printer was not working so that none could get their passbooks updated.
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