The chargesheet was filed in the Court of Special Judge, Anti Corruption, Jammu.
Bank officials Shamas Din, Keshav Raj Rakwal, Sanjeev Kumar and a shopkeeper Zahoor-ul-Hassan Kamal were booked for fraudulent withdrawals of Rs 4.60 lakhs from J&K Banks in Kishtwar, a CB spoeksman said here.
On December 22, 2008, a complaint from one Mohd Amin Bhawani of Chatroo area of Kishtwar was received in Crime Branch, Jammu wherein it was alleged that in the month of July 2008 a fraud was detected in J&K Bank Branch, Kishtwar in which Rs 4.60 lakhs was fraudulently withdrawn from four Saving Bank Accounts.
When the complainant and other account holders went to the Bank for withdrawal of money from their respective accounts, they found that their accounts were already debited without their authority.
Subsequently, the Branch Manager and the staff raised consumption loan and adjusted the the same into the accounts of the customers who were duped, he said.
During the course of investigation, it was found that money was fraudulently withdrawn from the three different accounts by one Zahoor-ul-Hassan Kamal who was running a shop adjacent to J&K Bank Branch, Kishtwar.
The spokesman said that Kamal had paid the share from the money withdrawn fraudulently to the then Branch Manager-Shamas Din, Manager II-Keshav Raj Rakwal and Manager Cash-Sanjeev Kumar.