PNB MD, others booked for fraud after court order

New Delhi: The South campus police has registered a case of forgery and cheat against the managing director and CEO of Punjab National Bank and has initiated a probe into the same. The FIR was registered on Friday evening following court orders.

Besides the name of the MD and CEO of Punjab National Bank, Ms Usha Ananthasubramanian, the FIR also has names of ex-manager Rekha Verma, branch manager of PNB (Moti Bagh) Manoj Mishra, circle head S.K. Jutshel and zonal manager Rajesh Yaduvanshi. Police, who has registered a case under Sections 341, 380, 454, and 120 B of the IPC following the

orders, is now preparing to question all the persons named in the FIR.

As per the FIR, Sudershan Goel, an advocate from Chandigarh high court, is the complainant. He lives in Chandigarh with his family. While practicing in Delhi, Mr Goel had bought a house named Anand Niketan in the year 1998 after living there as a tenant for few years. While his office was on the first floor of the house, the ground floor was given to Punjab National Bank on rent. Mr Goel was receiving the rent in his account. Later, he left for the USA.

According to the FIR, the bank allegedly shot a notice to the complainant in January 2014. Mr Goel, who visited his house in Delhi to carry out the work, allegedly found that his first floor office had been broken in and all his valuables were missing. He approached the police. However, the case was not registered.

Since 2014, as per the FIR content, Mr Goel repeatedly submitted all the evidences against the bank to the concerned police station and even wrote a complaint in this connection to the concerned ACP. However, no FIR was lodged.