The Twin City Commissionerate Police arrested Police arrested a woman postal agent for allegedly Siphoning over Rs 50Lakh from several depositors.
The accused woman has been identified as Sawrnalata Das, wife of Prasant Pattnaik of Kendar Lane under Shree Lingaraj police station limits in Bhubaneswar.
According to reports, the action was taken by Shree Lingaraj police on the basis of a complaint that Swarnalata Dash was allegedly working as a postal agent and had taken Rs 15,00,000 from the complainant in installments to deposit in the post office savings. The accused also took the complainant’s Saving passbook, RD passbook and FD Passbook and did not give her the documents even after repeated requests.
Acting on the complaint, the cops arrested the accused and also recovered around 127 postal passbooks of 98 depositors from her house.
As per the investigation, it was learnt that the accused have duped several people of Rs 50 Lakh.
Further investigation is underway in this regard.
