Three years after the CBI filed a chargesheet in a Rs 48.66 crore bank fraud involving a senior manager of Punjab and Sind Bank and the owner of a construction company as the accused, the CBI court today framed charges of cheating, corruption and criminal conspiracy against five persons in the case.
The trial is set to begin on the next date of hearing, which is April 18.
The CBI court today framed charges against Inderjit Singh, senior manager, Punjab and Sind Bank, Tarsem Singla, director and authorised signatory of Aakriti Constructions, his wife Suman Singla, his son Sumit Singla and proprietor M/S Gupta and Company, Sham Lal Jindal. As per the CBI, the total loss incurred by the bank amounted to Rs 48,66,00179 and the fraud was committed from 2009 to 2013.
As per the prosecution case, Inderjeet Singh, while working as a senior manager in Punjab and Sind Bank, Sector 47-D and the Sector 22 branch, Chandigarh, in connivance with the co-accused, cheated the Punjab and Sind Bank by debiting the RTGS (real time gross settlement) accounts maintained in the bank on the basis of fake and forged credit and debit vouchers which were dishonestly prepared and passed by Inderjeet Singh by deleting and recreating the passwords of employees. This was done on the basis of false and forged request letters mentioning forged UTR (unique taxpayer reference) numbers. The CBI had stated that the amount of RTGS was credited to the account of Tarsem Singla and others fraudulently by the accused. The CBI had said that by using the forged documents as genuine, the accused credited the amount in the accounts of the remaining accused which was further misutilised by them. “That you all cheated Punjab and Sind Bank by dishonestly inducing them to deliver the amount of Rs 48,66,00,179 by preparing fake and forged request letters and credit and debit vouchers,” the court said while framing charges today.
The trial is set to begin on the next date of hearing, which is April 18.
The CBI court today framed charges against Inderjit Singh, senior manager, Punjab and Sind Bank, Tarsem Singla, director and authorised signatory of Aakriti Constructions, his wife Suman Singla, his son Sumit Singla and proprietor M/S Gupta and Company, Sham Lal Jindal. As per the CBI, the total loss incurred by the bank amounted to Rs 48,66,00179 and the fraud was committed from 2009 to 2013.
As per the prosecution case, Inderjeet Singh, while working as a senior manager in Punjab and Sind Bank, Sector 47-D and the Sector 22 branch, Chandigarh, in connivance with the co-accused, cheated the Punjab and Sind Bank by debiting the RTGS (real time gross settlement) accounts maintained in the bank on the basis of fake and forged credit and debit vouchers which were dishonestly prepared and passed by Inderjeet Singh by deleting and recreating the passwords of employees. This was done on the basis of false and forged request letters mentioning forged UTR (unique taxpayer reference) numbers. The CBI had stated that the amount of RTGS was credited to the account of Tarsem Singla and others fraudulently by the accused. The CBI had said that by using the forged documents as genuine, the accused credited the amount in the accounts of the remaining accused which was further misutilised by them. “That you all cheated Punjab and Sind Bank by dishonestly inducing them to deliver the amount of Rs 48,66,00,179 by preparing fake and forged request letters and credit and debit vouchers,” the court said while framing charges today.
