New Delhi, March 28 -- The New India Co-operative Bank had granted a remission of Rs.1.55 crore to actor Preity Zinta in order to settle her loan of Rs.18 crore which it classified as a non-performing asset (NPA), police said on Thursday.

The loan was sanctioned in 2011 from the troubled New India Co-operative Bank.

As per an official, Preity settled the loan in April 2014.

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai police is currently investigating the New India Co-operative Bank embezzlement case. It has so far arrested eight accused in the case, including the bank's former general manager and head of accounts Hitesh Mehta, who was held on February 15.

As a part of the investigation, the agency examined the data of the bank's NP...