ES Reporter 

ITANAGAR, Nov 20: Former deputy manager of Axis Bank, Luhit Parajuli, who had been absconding for the past few months, was finally arrested by the capital police from Guwahati today in connection with a Rs 1 crore fraud case.
According to police, a complaint was lodged on June 21 at Itanagar PS against Parajuli for misappropriating about Rs.25 lakhs from the bank account of Axis bank when he was posted as Dy. Manager.
The FIR states that the accused also tried to intimidate the complainant by claiming himself as an IPS officer and undercover agent of the CBI Guwahati sent on a secret mission to fetch information about the bank's customers.
On receipt of the complaint, Itanagar PS case No.152/19 u.s.409/420 IPC was registered and SI N Nishant took up investigation under close supervision of SP and other senior officers.
During the investigation, it was revealed that the alleged accused embezzled about 1 crore rupees from the account of Axis Bank and transferred it to various accounts.
After escaping from Itanagar, he changed his address five times in a period of 4 months i.e. Itanagar, Doimukh, Biswanath Chariali, Beltola and Maligaon of Guwahati. Police said that the accused had also switched off his mobile numbers, which was hampering the investigation team from tracking his location. Later it is learned that the accused is a resident of a small village in Assam's Biswanath district. On getting this clue, the I / O started tracking the accused's location and eventually arrested him from Guwahati.

Due to the quick efforts and continued support of the manager and other employees of the bank, an amount of Rs.75 lakh was recovered by the police, the remaining Rs.25 lakh was already withdrawn by Parajuli, who quit the job soon after committing the offence.
Later to save the image of the bank, the employees collectively while following bank norms deposited the missing amount.
Parajuli will be produced before CJM Court Yupia on Thursday and further investigation is on to ascertain the entire scam and others involved in the case.
Meanwhile, Capital SP Tumme Amo appealed to Capital's denizens to regularly verify bank accounts opened at various banks to deal with this type of fraud.
“We have received many complaints of unauthorized bank transactions. A separate team is working and taken up the case to nab the culprits," the SP further added.

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Kenter Joya Riba

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