Bank manager held for cheating sr citizens

New Delhi, September 10

A former bank manger, Sanjeev Trikha (43), a resident of Faridabad, has been arrested for cheating a senior citizen couple, resident of New Friends Colony, in tune of Rs 1.43 crore.

On July 14, a senior citizen (85), got a cheating case registered reporting that in 2011, he and his wife opened a saving's bank account at Yes Bank, NFC branch.

In 2013, Trikha contacted them under 'Special Assistance for Senior Citizens' scheme and opened their joint account. Being senior citizens, the bank manager facilitated them with home services and used to visit their home for any banking assistance, police said.

In May 2018, complainant received a call from Insurance Department of ICICI Bank wherein the executive enquired them about their insurance policy, which surprised the complainant as he hasn’t invested in any such policy. The executive informed him that they had received the premium for this policy from the Yes Bank. On this, complainant inquired from Trikha about the said transaction, but the latter tried to ignore them.

On being pressed hard by the complainant, Trikha went to their home and informed them that he had invested in the policy without their approval but tried to convince them that they are receiving regular interest on this policy and provided them with the account statement showing interest received in their account. Sensing something fishy, complainant went to the Yes Bank branch and procured his account statement, where he found lot of contradictions in respect to the statement provided by Trikha. There were lot of unauthorized entries in respect to cash withdrawals as well as payments transferred to various insurance policies. The credential such as address, phone number, email of the complainant was found to be altered and contact details of Trikha were found in the record, said DCP (southeast).

Trikha's daughter was the nominee in the insurance policy. Complainant also learnt that Trikha had left the Yes Bank in September 2016 and at present, he was working in Equitas Bank, Lajpat Nagar branch. It was found that Trikha had by deceitful  manner withdrawn around Rs 64 lakh,  transferred some Rs 20 lakh in his account from their account through RTGS. He had invested some Rs 50 lakh from complainant’s account in various health policies of ICICI, Max and dishonestly mentioned his own address and cell number in them. — TNS