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CBI investigates alleged ₹10.24 crore fraud at Greater Noida PNB branch
The CBI has filed an FIR over alleged fraud at a Punjab National Bank branch in Greater Noida.
The bank’s complaint alleges that ₹10.24 crore was taken over three years from customers’ savings accounts and fixed deposits.
A bank employee, Deepanshi, is accused of misusing officials’ credentials and disabling transaction alerts, with several account holders also named in the FIR.
Many of the affected customers are farmers in Birondi who received compensation for land sold for the Jewar airport project.
The alleged fraud came to light when a customer visiting to update her passbook questioned transactions she did not recognise.
The CBI is now investigating how customers’ savings disappeared, while the farmers face uncertainty over money they had set aside for homes and family needs.
The CBI has filed an FIR over an alleged ₹10.24-crore fraud at Punjab National Bank’s Sector-Pi branch in Greater Noida.
The alleged fraud involved unauthorised debits from customers’ savings accounts and fixed deposits over three years.
A bank employee, Deepanshi, is accused of misusing branch officials’ credentials and disabling transaction alerts.
Many of the affected customers are farmers who received compensation after selling land for the Jewar airport project.
The CBI’s FIR followed a Gautam Buddha Nagar police FIR filed after customers reported that their accounts had been emptied.
- Who
- The CBI is investigating bank employee Deepanshi and others, including account holders named in the FIR.
- What
- An alleged ₹10.24-crore fraud involving unauthorised debits from customers’ accounts and fixed deposits.
- When
- The alleged fraud went on for three years. The source does not state when the CBI filed its FIR.
- Where
- PNB’s Sector-Pi branch in Greater Noida.
- Why
- Not stated.
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Three transactions were found in customer Sangita’s account without her knowledge when she visited the branch to update her passbook.
Gautam Buddha Nagar police filed an FIR against unidentified PNB employees.
The CBI filed an FIR based on a complaint from PNB’s Sector-Pi branch.
- Alleged amount
- ₹10.24 crore
- Branch
- PNB Sector-Pi, Greater Noida
- Alleged duration
- Three years
- Accused employee
- Deepanshi, Office Assistant/Sub Staff
- Affected customers
- Many were farmers who sold land for the Jewar airport project
3 sources
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What people are saying
hatching a criminal conspiracy, with connivance of each other to perpetrate financial fraud, criminal breach of trust, cheating, forgery, falsification of accounts
also confessed disclosing the modus operandi and admitting commission of fraud involving unauthorised debit transactions in the accounts of the customers of the bank misusing the credentials of branch officials without their consent and knowledge