Bank of India(BOI) branch in Uttar Pradesh is missing gold

Following the disappearance of gold valued at crores from a bank locker in Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, three persons were arrested on Thursday. The Bank of India has reported the event.

Customers of the bank pledged this gold as security for the gold loan they had obtained from the bank. 96 packets containing pledged gold were discovered missing from the bank's Bharaul branch locker, according to officials. When a client comes to the bank for a gold loan, he gives the bank his gold, which is then securely stored in a vault. Two Bank employees still have the keys to this vault.

Aditya Pratap Singh, the chief manager of the bank's Agra regional office, filed a formal complaint against three workers, including the branch manager at the time, at the Araon police station on Wednesday night.

After investigating in the matter, it was found that bank staff member and key custodian Dilip Kumar, a resident of Basgaon village in Etawah district, had been absent without information since May 27.

Suspicion arose after the bank failed to contact him. Following this, senior security manager Ankit and senior manager (security) of the Ghiror branch, Sushil Kumar, were sent to the Bharaul branch on June 15.

Police said a duplicate key was arranged and the locker was opened in the presence of the bank’s panel advocate Shiv Kumar Sharma with video recording. Officials found that 96 gold loan packets were missing from the locker.

Following this, an FIR has been registered against former branch manager Sandeep Yadav, staff officer Dilip Kumar and credit officer/staff officer Naresh Kumar. More details will be released soon.