Kendrapara, June 25 -- The Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Court of Aul has sentenced Abhiram Mallick, a cashier at Indian Bank's Singiri Bazaar branch, to two years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine for misappropriating lakhs of rupees from customers' accounts.
The case was filed based on a complaint by Surendra Nayak, a resident of Bandhasahi-Bilikana village, who alleged that Rs.70 lakh had been fraudulently withdrawn from his family's bank accounts.
Nayak, who works in Dubai, had opened accounts in the Indian Bank's Singiri branch in his own name, as well as in the names of his wife, Saraswati Nayak, and their two sons.
To his shock, Nayak discovered that Rs 70 lakh deposited across five family accounts had been withdrawn wi...