Cash totalling Rs 10 lakh was allegedly stolen from the cabin of the cashier of an Indian Bank branch in Madurai while a farewell party was on in another portion of the building housing the bank in May 2018. CCTV footage showed the robber entering the cabin on the first floor through a gap provided for ventilation and stealing the amount. The incident happened
In April 2018, five armed robbers on three bikes looted Rs 9.70 lakh cash from the Maharo branch of Vananchal Gramin Bank at Jama, about 10km from the district headquarters of Dumka. The bank guard was thrashed by the robbers when he tried to stop them
A Chennai-based jeweller Kanishk Gold Pvt Ltd (KGPL) has been accused of defrauding a consortium of 14 banks led by the State Bank of India (SBI) to the tune of Rs 824 crore in the form of loans that have now been declared as non-performing asset. The owner of KGPL and his wife were later thought to have fled the country. The incident happened in March 2018
In what seems to be a scene right out a movie, an unemployed engineer tried to rob a Nariman Point-based bank using a toy gun in December 2017. The man is said to have entered the bank holding up the gun and threatened people. The accused entered the branch and held the watchman at gunpoint and then asked everyone to lie on the floor. The gunman rushed towards the cashier and asked her to give him the money from her teller. The accused then asked one of the visitors to close the shutters of the branch. The fact that he was using a toy gun came to light only after the police arrived at the scene
Eleven persons, including a woman, allegedly committed a robbery at the Juinagar branch of Bank of Baroda in November 2017. The accused were believed to have entered by digging a tunnel and decamped with valuables worth Rs 3.43 crore by breaking open 30 lockers. It was a call that one of the criminals made to a sex worker to inform her that he would be coming to meet her that led to a breakthrough in the case, leading to the arrest of the entire gang. While eight of the accused were arrested from Mumbai, two others were held from Panchla in West Bengal and Allahabad
A gang of five men attacked the driver of a bank's cash van and fled away with Rs. 25 lakh in Bodh Gaya, Bihar. It also came to light that ammunitions were recovered from their possession. The incident happened in March 2017
In a shocking incident, a group of terrorists tried to snatch the rifle of a bank guard at Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam. In June 2017, the robbers had broken a window of the bank when the ATM guard noticed them. The guard raised an alarm following which hundreds of locals rushed towards the bank, forcing the robbers to flee
Thieves allegedly decamped with valuables and cash from a bank in outer Delhi's Mundka. The incident came to light in December 2017 when the bank opened for business. The burglary happened at the Delhi State Cooperative Bank. The accused used cutters to break the lockers and enter the bank. The CCTV cameras were also broken. Police suspected that the burglary was carried out after a thorough recce
A bank security guard was shot dead by unidentified assailants outside a bank in Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh in April 2017 as they tried to loot the cash. The security guard was unloading cash outside the Pariyava branch of the State Bank of India, when robbers, trying to rob the cash trunk, shot him six times from close range. The robbers had to however flee empty-handed as passersby and bank employees rushed to the spot after hearing the gunshots
The Kalyan crime branch detained three people, including a bank manager, for trying to exchange the banned currency notes in December 2016. In two separate incidents, the sleuths have seized around Rs 30 lakh. The accused were later identified as Sundaram Subramaniam (39), a Kalwa resident and manager with IndusInd bank's Andheri branch, Chetan Patil (37), a builder from Kalwa, and Mohammed Mustaq Shaikh, a businessman and Koparkhairne resident
Unidentified miscreants robbed an OBC Bank cash van of Rs. 60 lakh after killing a security guard in Punjab's Moga district in May 2016. Police said the incident took place on the Moga-Baghapurana road when some unidentified persons forcibly stopped the cash van and robbed it after opening fire at the security guard. The officials said the guard was immediately rushed to hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries
Staff of Punjab National Bank's branch in Muzzafarnagar were allegedly confined in their office by customers who alleged delay in the withdrawal of cash during demonetisation time in November 2016. The customers were angry over alleged delay in the withdrawal of cash. On receiving information of the crime, a police team rushed to the spot and freed the staff after breaking the lock
The Bandra Kurla police arrested a 34-year-old employee of ISG Company, who was deputed at the BKC branch of a nationalised bank to look after reconciliation work, for cheating the bank of over Rs 34 lakh. The company confirms the credit and debits to customers' bank accounts, after the bank gives them data for this. During a review, bank staff found a savings account suspicious, as the balance was zero, but earlier transactions in it raised eyebrows. The bank officials were shocked when they found that the account belonged to the employee and the bank statement revealed that Rs 34,50,000 were siphoned off from a cash account to his account
Two thieves who wanted to clean out an Ulhasnagar bank, and had entered it after breaking the iron grille on the terrace, left empty-handed as they were unable to break open the safe. The Ulhasnagar police later registered a case and launched a search for the accused on the basis of CCTV footage. The two accused attempted the robbery at a Bank of Baroda branch at Nehru Nagar in Ulhasnagar in October 2016
A con couple from Mumbai gave several banks and the police a run for their money. Regi and Juliana Fernandes were booked in December 2016 at three police stations for duping several banks to the tune of over Rs 1.15 crore. They accumulated the amount by presenting forged documents to secure loans and fled once they got the money. The Santacruz police were suprised to learn that there were cases registered against them in other police stations, including Versova and Oshiwara while investigating the case registered with them
A gang consisting of Iranian nationals were caught on a cheating spree in South Mumbai targetting several shops, companies and banks in. Their modus operandi is the oldest technique in 'haath ki safai i.e. skill in swindling money in such a way that the victim doesn't even realise that he has been robbed
A gang of four robbers that targeted the Versova branch of the Maharashtra Co-operative bank in the wee hours of the morning had to flee empty-handed after the LPG in their gas cutter ran out before the safe could be broken open. According to the police, the culprits managed to enter the bank by cutting open the grille of the air conditioner with the gas cutter. The matter came to light when employees arrived for work the next morning and found the grille and AC missing, showing the way through which the robbers had gone in
The Mumbai police arrested 20-year-old woman for allegedly cheating several people by promising loans while posing as an ICICI Bank Manager. The woman would take money from people on the promise of loans and later abscond with the amount
In a bizarre case of fraud, the police had to launch a search for a conman with powers of hypnosis after bank manager Bhupendra Kumar Maniram (52) of the Dadar branch of State Bank of Patiala claimed he was bewitched into parting with Rs 93,000. Although he handed over the money to the man himself, he told the police that he had no control over his actions and remembers little of what had happened. The incident happened in October 2015
Armed robbers, clad in police uniforms, forcibly stopped the cash van of a private bank near Punjab's Ludhiana city and escaped with cash amounting to Rs 1.68 crore. The staff of the cash van later told the police that the robbers came in another vehicle and stopped them. 'They were wearing police uniforms. They forced our vehicle to stop, locked us inside it and took away the cash,' one of the staff members said
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