Bhubaneswar: Vigilance officials Tuesday arrested three people on charges of fraud. The trio and others had allegedly taken loans of Rs 45.2 lakh from Orissa State Cooperative Bank in 2009 and 2010 by submitting fake documents.
The accused were identified as Dinabandhu Mishra, an employee at the office of the chief engineer, drainage division, Cuttack; Kabita Jena, a teacher at Srimad Bhagabat Gita Vidya Mandir, Nayapalli in Bhubaneswar; and Lingaraj Sahoo, a computer operator at Ardom Telecom Private Ltd at Bomikhal in Bhubaneswar.
“The trio, along with several others and Rabindra Kumar Jena, who was the establishment officer in the office of the chief engineer, drainage division, Cuttack, had fraudulently taken loans amounting to Rs 45.2 lakh from OSCB’s main branch here in 2009 and 2010. They had submitted fake documents such as salary certificates, copies of service books, etc., to get the loans sanctioned from OSCB. They had also impersonated employees of the office of the chief engineer, drainage division, Cuttack, to get the loans,” said SP (vigilance) Basant Kumar Panigrahi.
Earlier, vigilance department officials had arrested four other people in connection with the case. Two of them – Pravat Kumar Jena, field officer of OSCB’s main branch, and Pratap Gouda, a stenographer at the office of EIC WR in Bhubaneswar – were arrested December 21, 2015. The two others – Niranjan Satpathy and Bijay Kumar Nayak, who had both taken loans from the bank fraudulently – were arrested January 15, 2016.
Jena, the prime accused in the fraud case registered by the vigilance department in 2013, is currently out on bail.
