PNB reports fraud of Rs 3,688.58 cr in DHFL account; stock slumps 7%

Shares of DHFL, meanwhile, tanked 4.8 per cent in the intra-day trade to hit a day's low of Rs 14.9 apiece on the BSE

Shares of state-owned Punjab National Bank slumped up to 6.7 per cent to Rs 34.6 on the BSE on Friday after the bank said it has reported loan extended to Dewan Housing Finance Ltd (DHFL), worth Rs 3,688.58 crore, as fraud.

"The bank is reporting Borrowal Fraud of Rs 3,688.58 crore in NPA account of Dewan Housing Finance Ltd. (DHFL) at large corporate branch at Mumbai, Zonal Office," the bank said in a regulatory filing.

The bank, however, had already made provisions for the NPA account amounting to Rs 1,246.58 crore, as per prescribed prudential norms, it added.