Rs 50 Lakh yellow metal missing from Bank Locker
A 50 lakh family jewelery mostly yellow metal belonged to a businessman of this town kept safely in side a Bank Locker since 1998 went missing as a FIR for cheating, bank fraud and stolen was register in Sadar police station here in Tuesday, victim informed here today.The case under section 409, 420, 120B of IPC is registered at Sadar police Shimla. Mysterious disappearance of gold worth Rs 50 lakh kept in the locker of a bank in the capital of Himachal has created a stir. As Victims lodged FIR against a Bank customer and Bank Manager of Bank of Baroda near Shimla on August 2. Police has started investigating the matter. In the preliminary investigation, there is a possibility of complicity of any employee or officer of the bank itself. The businessman Ashutosh Sood has said in the complaint given to the police that he had hired bank looker number 77 in BOB bank branch in Shimla in the year 1998. In the year 2017, bank officials told him that its bank locker number had been changed from 77 to 177. From the year 2017 onwards, he was operating his bank locker from the locker number 177 issued by the bank. The bank locker has not been opened since the year 2019. Recently, on July 30, when he went to the bank branch to inspect his locker, the key of the locker was not found in it. When he contacted the bank officials when the key was not found, it was told that the locker number 177 in his name has been shown in the computer system of the bank in the name of Gurpreet Singh Virak. Not only this, it has also been revealed that Gurpreet Singh had broken the bank locker in his presence with the bank officials saying that the keys of his locker were missing and he had taken away the goods kept in it.Now the subject of investigation is that if the locker number 177 was allotted in the name of Ashutosh, then who allotted it to Gurpreet Singh in the bank records and how. After this, losing Gurpreet’s keys and breaking the locker and taking away the goods is also under suspicion. At present, complainant Ashutosh Sood alleges that the goods kept in locker number 177 belonged to him. Ashutosh Sood told that he kept his jewelry worth 50 lakhs in the bank locker. He has alleged that with the connivance of the bank management, his jewelery kept in the allot locker in his name was given to another person Gurpreet Singh. He said that all this would not have been possible without the connivance of the bank management.
