Central Bank business facilitator at Rhenock taken into custody

ACCUSED BOOKED ON CHARGES OF CHEATING AND THEFT
GANGTOK, 09 Aug: Roshan Thapa, the Business Correspondent/ Facilitator with the Rhenock branch of Central Bank of India, accused of skimming Rs. 2.60 lakh from the bank account [in Central Bank] of an ex-servicemean, has been taken into custody and is currently on a 7-day police remand at the Rhenock Thana.He has been booked under Sections 420/ 379 covering cheating and theft of the Indian Penal Code.
Rhenock Thana OC, PI Bishal Rai, confirmed over the phone today that the accused was taken into custody on 07 August itself on the basis of a written complaint lodged by the victim, Sukbir Subba, a retired Naik from the Defence Security Corps.
“We had seized four withdrawal slips - two amounting to Rs. 80,000 each and two slips of Rs. 30,000 each, which the complainant claims were withdrawn without his knowledge from the bank,” the OC informed adding that a cheque amounting to Rs. 1 lakh [which the victim claimed to be withdrawn himself] is also in their possession to tally the signatures.
The OC further informed that he has also requisitioned the CCTV footage of days when the said amounts were withdrawn.
He said that it was one of the options to find out whether the above mentioned amounts were withdrawn by the accused person in the absence of the victim. It is to be mentioned here that the victim has alleged that the accused had asked him to sign in four blank withdrawal slips convincing him that a substantial amount had been mistakenly credited to his account and needed to be returned. It later transpired that the amount in question was part of the victim’s retirement settlement dues. [for details, refer NOW! issue dated 08 August 2012]
On chances of the case being “settled” between the victim and the accused, the PI informed that the police investigation into the case will not be effected by such developments and that a detailed report on the investigation will be submitted to the courts when completed.
It may be recalled that a 57-year-old retired Naik from DSC of the Indian Army had accused Roshan Thapa, a Business Correspondent/ Facilitator with Central Bank of India, Rhenock Branch, of having pilfered Rs. 2.60 lakh from his account by convincing him that it was part of an amount which had been deposited into his account by mistake.