Deogarh: Deogarh police on Sunday arrested the operational manager of a private bank for allegedly stealing Rs 18 lakh from the fixed deposit of a customer on the pretext of a loan.
The accused was identified Prabesh Chandra Dash, who was working as an Operations Manager with Axis Bank in Deogarh.
“We received a complaint from Krushna Chandra Mahakul in his matter. In course of investigation it was ascertained that th
e bank manager had defrauded the customer by developing good relations with him,” Debagarh SDPO Soumya Ranjan Mallick said.
Dash was arrested from Airfield area of Bhubaneswar and produced in a court here this morning, the SDPO added.
According to police, Mahakul, a retired WESCO employee, had two fixed deposits amounting to Rs 15 lakh and Rs 9 lakh in the bank. When he wanted to withdraw the money for his daughter’s wedding in November 2023, Mahakul realised that there was a loan of Rs 18 lakh in his name against these fixed deposits.
“We shared a good rapport and I had given him (bank manager) my mobile phone on a couple of occasions for banking transactions. It was during this period he used my phone to avail the loan. After realising of being duped, I filed a police complaint against the manager,” Mahakul said.