Mumbai: A 69-year-old former Bank of India employee has been booked by the Bandra Kurla Complex police for illegally transferring Rs 86.75 lakh to his son's account between 2014 and 2016. The complaint was filed by the bank nearly a decade later.
The accused, Deepak Shriram Kaley, then an officer in the Transaction Banking Department at the bank’s BKC head office, allegedly transferred funds to his son from an ECS Collection Poll account to an account named M/s Solutech, without senior approval.
Public prosecutor Ramesh Siroya stated that Kaley used his personal login credentials to carry out the transfers.
Kaley’s lawyer argued that the charge of criminal breach of trust does not apply in this case. However, the investigating officer maintained that Kaley misappropriated a significant amount of public funds.
Taking the prosecution’s argument into account, the court observed that the seriousness of the charges warrants detailed custodial interrogation.
