Bihar: Recently, a news regarding unauthorized withdrawals in Union Bank of India has come to light. A daily wage employee working in branch has withdrawn money from accounts of various customers. The incident took place at the Union Bank of India branch in Singhia Ghat. The incident involves a daily wage worker named Gaurav Kumar, who allegedly withdrew money illegally from several customer accounts. The investigation has been ongoing for four days now.
Investigation Progress
A three-member investigation team, appointed by the regional manager, began the investigation after the case came to light. Subsequently, a two-member investigation team, along with senior officials, continued the investigation. The in-charge branch manager, Chandrashekhar Gupta, filed an application against the accused Gaurav Kumar at the Vibhutipur police station.
While the application does not mention the name of any bank employee or officer, it is worth noting that the illegal transactions were carried out using the bank employee’s credentials. This has raised questions and concerns regarding the involvement of bank staff in the incident. The investigation is currently being conducted by a senior officer from Ranchi.
Employee Transfers for Fair Investigation
In light of the incident, four employees, including the manager, have been transferred from the bank. One employee had already been transferred at the departmental level two months ago. Following the recent developments, two employees, including branch manager Chandan Kumar, have been transferred to ensure a fair investigation. eing transaction-related work after the transfer of the employee.
The investigation is ongoing, and it is crucial to determine the extent of involvement and hold the responsible parties accountable. The Union Bank of India is committed to ensuring that the illegally withdrawn money is returned to the affected customers.
Without adding any staff, how can daily wager can withdraw money.password is necessary to operate account. Staff involve also.
Iron cash almirah has limit of cash but sharing password is a digital key of almirah which has no cash limit. the employees whose ID and password are used, treated digitally acceptance and signed and can’t deny from their accountanility
With Biometric enabled system how this daily wage worker withdrawn the amounts? It seems may be false news.
It can be due to shortage of staff. Sometimes to run the branch , part time employee who is smart enough learned routine work ,given work with password of employee. No direct staff evolvement will be found but definitely gross negligence on part of the officer staff
It is possible if one leaves PC unattended and logged in condition
Rightly said by hemant kumar and ritesh
Canteen boys keep good repo and manager gives premises key for opening and closing of premises, one day he acess to safe, some incidents happened some may happen in futurr