Chandigarh: Police have booked two people for allegedly duping a private bank of Rs 80 lakh on the pretext of taking loan on forged invoice of construction equipment. One of the accused had already been booked for cheating another bank of Rs 1 crore in a similar case.
Divesh Aggarwal, manager,
ICICI Bank, Sector 15, alleged
Mohit Arora of Sector 108,
Mohali
, and
Gursev Singh
of Industrial Area, Phase I, Panchkula, had availed loan of Rs 80 lakh for purchase of hydraulic excavator. He alleged the accused had submitted a forged invoice copy of the equipment in 2018. Later, the manufacturer confirmed to the bank it did not sell or deal in the particular excavator. Earlier, the EOW had booked Gursev Singh for allegedly duping Bank of India, Sector 17, of Rs 1 crore on the pretext of selling and purchasing two excavators on February 5.
Assistant general manager of the branch said his bank disbursed a loan of Rs 1 crore in October 2017 for delivering two excavators. The loan amount was transferred in the account of G-3 Motors. One
Jasbir Singh had applied for the loan to buy the excavators from Gursev Singh, proprietor of G-3 Motors. After taking the money, G-3 Motors allegedly failed to deliver the excavators.
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