MP: Commission agent cheated bank customers worth lakhs, bought many expensive properties including tractor-shop

MP Surajpur Fraud Case: Surajpur Police of Chhattisgarh has succeeded in arresting the commission agent who cheated the customers of Central Bank. The accused commission agent has fraudulently defrauded bank customers of more than Rs 20 lakh. During police interrogation, the accused told that he had bought land, built a shop and a house, and bought a tractor with fraudulent money.

In this matter, in the month of December last year, Ambikapur resident advocate Dhananjay Mishra had registered a case with the police. He had told in the complaint given by the police that there is a business representative named Abhishek Pratap Singh in the Central Bank of India branch, Mahganwa district, Surajpur. He works as a commission agent in the bank, but is not an employee of the bank.

The accused committed fraud of more than Rs 20 lakh
The accused took money from the complainant for depositing it in his bank account, but did not deposit the amount received in his account. During the investigation, when the police inspected the application forms and deposit slips of the complainants, they were surprised because the accused Abhishek Pratap Singh did not take money from the people and deposit it in their accounts.

Due to this, Mahagwa Central Bank suffered huge loss, on the contrary, Abhishek Pratap Singh got personal benefit. Prima facie, a loss of about Rs 20 lakh 57 thousand 600 has been revealed. The accused fraudulently took the money of the people who came to deposit money in the bank. During this time, he also prepared fake seals and fake documents of the bank.

This is how the accused used to cheat customers
A case was registered against the accused under section 420 of the IPC for police fraud and forgery. Under the guidance of Additional Superintendent of Police Santosh Mahato and CSP SS Pankra, Surajpur police station was investigating the case and locating the accused. Meanwhile, on the information of the informer, the police surrounded and arrested the accused Abhishek Pratap Singh.

During police interrogation, the accused told that the depositors who used to come to the bank to deposit money, used to put the bank’s seal on their deposit slips and give an acknowledgment by signing it and kept the money with themselves. With the money received from bank customers, he purchased land in the village in his father’s name. Apart from this, he got a house and a shop built and gave money to buy a tractor in his uncle’s name.

At the behest of the accused, the police seized the seal, documents related to land purchase and the tractor. Police have arrested the accused under sections 419, 467, 468, 471 of IPC after he confessed to the fraud.

Collusion of the accused with bank employees?
In this case, the victims told that the accused used to work as an employee inside the bank. Not only this, accused Abhishek Pratap Singh used to give receipt and sealed signature to the customers for depositing money in their accounts. According to the victims, this did not make them realize the fraud at all. If the victims are to be believed, the complicity of the bank officials and employees also cannot be ruled out.

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