Just read about this insane case from Indore and it’s honestly quite scary ah . A bank manager and his friend are accused of taking ₹22 lakh loan in someone else's name without him even knowing.
The complainant,Navin Kumar Soni from Lodhipura,basically claims he had no idea about this loan . He was just trying to get one overdraft facility.
Apparently,it all started when his associate Ashish Agrawal introduced him to the bank manager,Santosh Shrivastav . They told him he needed to open current account and submit property documents as collateral for the loan process. So Soni submitted his wife’s original plot sale deed to the bank . And this seems to be the main document they misused.
And honestly,this is where things get really unbelievable.
Soni only found out about whole thing when he went to bank on June 5 to get his property papers back . That’s when bank staff told him a loan of ₹22 lakh was already sanctioned in his name on April 21,2025 . And that almost ₹20.50 lakh had already been taken out .
He says he never even authorized or operated that loan account.
So few points are very clear from this mess:
- Loan of ₹22 lakh was approved without Soni's consent or knowledge.
- Manager allegedly forged Soni's signatures on documents .
- Around ₹20.50 lakh was illegally withdrawn from the account .
But most shocking part is that the bank manager himself is the main accused . The person you are supposed to trust with your money and documents is the one who is allegedly running the scam. How can anyone feel safe then…
After Soni’s complaint,police have now started a case against both Shrivastav and Agrawal . Investigation is going on rn.
This entire incident just makes you wonder about the internal checks in these banks,especially cooperative ones . If a manager can do this so easily,what is stopping it from happening again somewhere else? Makes you really think twice before handing over original documents…
