Archive · 27 Aug 2026
CBI Arrests Absconding Odisha Postal Official in Savings Fraud
The CBI arrested a former post office manager in Odisha.
She is accused of taking nearly Rs 14 lakh from people’s savings and hiding the deposits in official records.
Investigators say false information was written in depositors’ passbooks.
She had avoided arrest for several years.
A court in Bhubaneswar received her after the arrest.
In a separate case, a former bank manager was found guilty of taking a bribe.
He had accepted Rs 6,000 to help release part of a farmer’s loan.
He was sentenced to five years in prison and fined Rs 25,000.
The CBI arrested former Bonda Branch Post Master Shabda Swain in Odisha over an alleged Rs 13.98 lakh depositor-funds fraud.
Investigators allege Swain failed to record deposits and made false passbook entries during her 2008–2014 posting.
Swain had allegedly been absconding since charges were framed in 2015, and a non-bailable warrant was issued in 2022.
Separately, former Baroda UP Gramin Bank manager Rakesh Chandra Thakur received five years’ rigorous imprisonment for accepting a Rs 6,000 bribe.
Thakur was convicted in connection with demanding the bribe to release the first instalment of a Rs 4.25 lakh Kisan Credit Card loan.
- Who
- The CBI, former Bonda Branch Post Master Shabda Swain, and former Baroda UP Gramin Bank manager Rakesh Chandra Thakur.
- What
- Swain was arrested over an alleged Rs 13.98 lakh post office savings fraud; separately, Thakur was sentenced to five years for accepting a Rs 6,000 bribe.
- When
- Swain’s alleged misconduct occurred from 2008 to 2014; charges were framed in 2015 and a warrant was issued in 2022. Thakur’s case was registered in 2018 and the sentence was reported on August 25.
- Where
- Swain was arrested in Bargarh, Odisha, and produced before a court in Bhubaneswar; Thakur’s case involved Sultanpur and was decided by a Special CBI Court in Lucknow.
- Why
- The CBI alleges Swain misappropriated depositor funds through false records, while Thakur accepted money to disburse the first instalment of a Kisan Credit Card loan.
- Alleged postal fraud
- Rs 13.98 lakh
- Postal official
- Shabda Swain, former Branch Post Master at Bonda Post Office
- Alleged fraud period
- 2008–2014
- Arrest location
- Bargarh, Odisha
- Bank bribe
- Rs 6,000
- Loan involved
- Rs 4.25 lakh Kisan Credit Card loan
- Bank manager’s sentence
- Five years’ rigorous imprisonment and a Rs 25,000 fine