After the director of Siddhi Cooperative Bank, the Kalupur police on Friday arrested the account manager of the bank in connection with a fraud involving bogus bank accounts worth Rs40 lakh.
Sources said the bogus accounts were opened to facilitate illegal transaction some of which also involved trading in the stock market.
According to Kalupur police, HM Goswami, a sub-inspector with Kathlal police station lodged a complaint that his brother's account was showing inflated amount, which was later withdrawn. They got to know of this when they received an account statement from Siddhi Cooperative Bank Ltd, Kalupur.
Goswami then filed a complaint with Kalupur police against an unidentified person for opening and operating the two accounts - one in his name and one in the name of his brother. During preliminary investigation, the police came to know that four accounts were opened using fake identity cards and forged documents such as election voting cards. Further investigation revealed that transactions worth Rs40 lakh were carried using these four accounts.
Based on the investigation, the Kalupur police on Thursday first arrested Jigar Thakkar (30) director of the bank and on Friday arrested the account manager Mukesh Darji. Darji was produced before the metro magistrate court on Saturday.
The police had sought seven days' remand of Darji, however, after hearing the objections raised by Darji's advocate the court granted remand for three days to the police
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