GUWAHATI: The branch manager and a fourth-grade employee of Assam Gramin Vikas Bank's Manipur branch in Hailakandi district were arrested on October 16 after customers complained that money was being withdrawn from their accounts.
The accused have been identified as Maniram Chauhan, Branch Manager and Surya Dhar, sanitation worker.
According to reports, when a depositor of the bank came to liquidate his fixed deposits, the bank manager checked his records and found that no fixed deposits were kept for the said name.
As word of the incident spread around the area, many depositors of the bank rushed there and found that the records of their fixed deposits were also not available with the bank.
Katlicherra Police Station Officer-in-Charge Nirmal Kanti Biswas said that interrogation is on in connection with the mysterious disappearance of lakhs of rupees from the accounts of customers of the bank.
Meanwhile, Hailakandi Deputy Commissioner Keerthi Jalli and Superintendent of Police Pabindra Kumar Nath assured the agitated bank customers that they were taking steps for recovery of their money.
