3 yr RI for Indore bank official, 5 others

INDORE: Chief manager of Sate Bank of Indore (SBI) and five others were convicted and sentenced to three years rigorous imprisonment with penalty of Rs 2,500 for cheating and committing fraud by the Special judge CBI cases on Friday, here. All the convicts were held guilty of siphoning off Rs 30.27 lakh from SBI fraudulently with an intention to cheat and defraud, informed a press release issued by the CBI.
The press release said, chief manager of the bank N A Khan, who was posted at Palsikar Colony Indore during 2003-04, entered into a criminal conspiracy with late Charan Mangal Murmum, then officer of SBI, Sabir Khan, Kamal Singh Solanki, Manoj Mehna, Rahida, Subrati and Mohammad Hussain (private persons) to commit the offence of cheating, impersonating using forged documents as genuine etc. in as much as three fraudulent loans cases amounting to Rs 30.27 lakh.
The CBI has filed a case against all the accused in 2005 on a written complaint of general manger and chief vigilance officer, SBI Indore. After finding the allegation true a charge-sheet was filed in 2008 in the court of special judges of CBI. Today, all the seven accused were convicted. Six of them were sentenced on Friday while the court reserved the judgment in respect of Subrati as he was not present in the court at the time of announcement of judgement, the press release said.