Woman held for using SBI customers' debit cards to steal

THANJAVUR: A young woman staffer of State Bank of India (SBI) in Mannargudi was arrested for allegedly stealing Rs 5.15 lakh from the accounts of three customers using the debit cards sanctioned for their accounts, police said.
All three customers hail from Thanjavur but are working abroad. They had opened the accounts to deposit money from SBI branches abroad so that their family members could draw the cash here.During their recent visit home, they had applied for debit cards. The cards were sanctioned, but the bank staff withheld delivery of these cards, as they had left the country by then.
When their relatives visited the bank recently, they found that the balance was too low. Following their complaint, the bank staff verified the accounts and found that a sum of Rs 5.15 lakh had been withdrawn using debit cards.
A perusal of CCTV footage from ATM centres by the bank officials revealed that Revathi (24) from Mannargudi, working as a temporary staffer in the debit cards section of the bank, had withdrawn the amount. She was arrested on Saturday night. Interrogation revealed that she had also used the debit cards of two more persons for withdrawing money.