He had allegedly forged documents to take money from customers’ fixed deposits
The Tiruppur City Police arrested a former chief manager of a nationalised bank in the early hours of Tuesday at Coimbatore on charges of misappropriating ₹1.8 crores.
Police said T. Dhandapani (60) was the chief manager at the S.R. Nagar branch of Indian Bank from August 2019 to May 2020. During this period, he allegedly misappropriated money from the fixed deposits of 12 customers. The accused allegedly forged documents to show that these customers took loans, and even changed their mobile phone numbers while withdrawing the cash so that the customers would not be notified of the change in their account balance.
Suspended official, document writer arrested
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The Tiruppur City Police on Wednesday arrested a former assistant, who was working at a Sub-Registrar Office, and a private document writer in connection with the case of committing forgery and misappropriating funds to the tune of nearly ₹ 69 lakh in the Registration Department.
A release issued on Thursday said the accused were R. Shankar (33), assistant at Sub-Registrar Office (Joint-I) who was suspended in December 2020, and Jaishankar (35), a document writer at a private typing office near this office. The arrests were made by a special team from Central Crime Branch (CCB) of the city police led by Assistant Commissioner of Police K. Balamurugan.