Face2Mews/Lucknow
The Ld. Spl. Judge, CBI (Central) Court, Lucknow has pronounced two separate sentences convicting accused public servants in a CBI case under which two separate chargesheets were filed against accused. Under one of the chargesheets, the Court sentenced two accused including Shri K.K. Mehta, then Assistant Manager, UCO Bank, Halsey Road, Kanpur to 07 years’ Rigorous Imprisonment with a fine of Rs. 4.5 lakhs and Shri Vijay Kumar, then Manager, UCO Bank, IT College Branch, Lucknow to 3 years’ Rigorous Imprisonment with total fine of Rs. 50,000/- for dishonestly and fraudulently misappropriating public funds. In another chargesheet, the Court sentenced Shri K.K. Mehta, then Assistant Manager, UCO Bank, Halsey Road, Kanpur to 07 years’ Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) with fine of Rs. 3.25 lakhs for separate offences related to forgery and misappropriation of public funds. The total fine imposed on both the accused persons under both the chargesheets comes to Rs. 8.25 lakhs.
CBI had registered a case on 28.09.2005 on the written complaint from AGM, UCO Bank, RO, Lucknow against accused including the convicted accused namely Shri K.K. Mehta, then Assistant Manager, Shri Vijay Kumar, then Manager of UCO Bank, IT College Branch, Lucknow and others. It was alleged that accused in pursuance of criminal conspiracy amongst themselves and with some unknown persons forged security documents like FDRs during the period from June 1997 to November 2004. It was also alleged that accused falsely and fraudulently used/ issued FDR leaves out of stolen FDR books from the branch, by showing them to have been issued from UCO Bank, Chandrawal Branch, Lucknow and Jamu Branch, Kanpur. The proceeds were allegedly, fraudulently adjusted for liquidation of loans obtained and thereby accused misappropriated the loan amount.
Two chargesheets were filed against accused on 30.03.2007 for separate offences. In respect of the chargesheet filed against the aforesaid two public servants, investigation revealed that K.K. Mehta, while posted and functioning as Assistant Manager, UCO Bank, Chandrawal Branch, Lucknow; Generalganj Branch, Kanpur, Halsey Road Branch, Kanpur and Hazratganj Branch during the period 1997 to 2005 entered criminal conspiracy with accused public servant Vijay Kumar and dishonestly and fraudulently obtained two loans in the name of Smt. Roopam for Rs. 50,000/- and Rs. 60,000/- dated 03.07.1998 & 22.08.1998 respectively from UCO Bank, Chandrawal Branch, Lucknow on the basis of 07 FDRs issued in the name of Smt. Roopam and withdrew the money through saving account in the name of Dr. Bhupendra Kumar without their consent. The money withdrawn from aforesaid savings account was used in making demand draft in the name of Mehra Brother, Kanpur (a share broker firm). It was further revealed that when Smt. Roopam demanded the 07 FDRs issued in her name, Shri K.K. Mehta dishonestly and fraudulently obtained 7 blank FDR leaves from Vijay Kumar who was then Manager, UCO Bank, Kidwai Nagar, Kanpur and forged the FDRs issued in the name of Smt. Roopam and gave the same to Smt. Roopam in lieu of her original FDRs.
Under the second chargesheet filed against Shri K.K. Mehta, investigation revealed that he dishonestly obtained 09 loans in his own name, in the name of his family members and others worth Rs. 4,16,000/- on the basis of forged and fictitious FDRs and adjusted the loan amounts against such FDRs thereby misappropriating the said amount.