5 booked for Rs 35.44L bank loan fraud

Chandigarh, April 15

Five persons have been booked for fraudulently taking a loan of Rs35.44 lakh in the name of a doctor.

The complainant, Parveen Sharma, a doctor with a private hospital, alleged that the suspects, Amrish, Mohandeep, Harshmeet, Ravinder Pal and Sangram, got a loan of Rs 35.44 lakh sanctioned on his name from ICICI Bank, Dera Bassi, in 2017.

He said the suspects had approached him regarding the sale of a plot in Dera Bassi and a bank employee visited him and took some documents and blank cheques on the pretext of processing the loan. He was assured that the cheques would be returned to him after documentation of loan papers.

In 2018, he came to know that a cheque has bounced. He then found that a loan was sanctioned in his name, even though he had not signed the sanction letter. He said he was shocked to know that the registry of a plot was done in his name at the Sub-Registrar’s office in Dera Bassi, though he had never visited it. The complainant approached the police.

After an investigation, a case was registered against the suspects at the Industrial Area police station on April 14. —TNS