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CBI today conducted searches at the residential premises
of six officials of the State Bank of India, main branch at
Dhanbad, Singhbhum, Balia and Mainpuri (UP) in connection
with an allegation that these officials were involved in replacing
notes with brown papers of the same size in the bundles of
soiled currency notes of different denominations, meant for
destruction by the Reserve Bank of India, and misappropriated
about Rs 1,25,47,950. During the search, CBI officials recovered
several incriminating documents which are under scrutiny by
the investigators. Of the Six officers whose houses were searched,
two officers of the State Bank of India, Dhanbad branch are
the joint custodian of the currency chest.
CBI has registered a case against the accused persons who
had adopted the modus operandi of inserting brown papers and
other papers cut into the same size as currency notes of different
denomination to conceal their fraudulent act. They had no
inkling that their act will be detected since they had thought
that the Reserve Bank of India will destroy the notes as soon
as it received them. To their ill luck, the Reserve Bank of
India, Patna branch detected the irregularities and returned
the notes for segregating them properly.
Subsequent scrutiny of the notes under the supervision of
senior State Bank officials revealed the fraud. The amount
of loss may go up as the process of segregation of lower denomination
notes are still continuing.
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