The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested a cashier in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, who embezzled over Rs 2.6 crore. The cashier was suspended after the fraud was exposed. An FIR was also filed with the ACB, after which the accused cashier remained absconding. The incident took place at SBI branch in Bilha in 2025.
After examining the bank’s records and accounts, it was discovered that the cashier, Tejavath Thirapathamma, and other employees colluded to tamper with the bank’s records and accounts. They embezzled over Rs 2.6 crore through fraud.
After noticing discrepancies in bank deposits, branch manager Piyush Bara requested for a departmental investigation, which revealed the financial irregularities. He reported the matter to headquarters, following which cashier was suspended.
She was also attached to the Regional Business Office (RBO) in Jagdalpur. Following her suspension in June 2025, the cashier neither joined the Jagdalpur office nor returned to the Bilha office, and she remained absent from the office ever since.
After the financial irregularities came to light, the branch manager Piyush Bara had complained about the matter to the ACB, on which the ACB team had registered a case on January 19, 2026 against the then cashier of State Bank of Bilha, and others under sections 13 (1) A, 13 (2) PC Act 1988, sections 316 (5), 318 (4), 61 (2), 338, 336 (3), 340 (2) BNS.
Previously, the State Bank of India conducted a departmental investigation, which found cashier Tejavath and others guilty of financial irregularities and embezzlement. The Bilaspur ACB, while investigating the case, gathered the State Bank’s departmental investigation report and evidence collected on its own, and has since been searching for the cashier.
An informant was also deployed at the Bilha branch to get information about the scam. On Thursday, it was learned that cashier Tejavath had arrived at the bank. Upon receiving this information, the team arrived and surrounded the bank and arrested cashier.
