A girl claimed that she had stored jewelry and different valuables value almost Rs 50 lakh in an SBI locker in Kanpur, solely to come back throughout the locker empty when she lastly returned to entry it after years.
The girl mentioned that she had opened the locker in 2003 on the then State Financial institution of Travancore’s Swaroop Nagar department. The financial institution later turned a part of the State Financial institution of India following the merger of a number of affiliate banks.
The State Financial institution of Travancore (SBT) was a significant Indian financial institution headquartered in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, and was a significant affiliate of the State Financial institution of India. It was merged into the State Financial institution of India (SBI) in 2017, which resulted in SBT being discontinued as an impartial model.
She claimed that she had stored gold jewelry and different valuables value round Rs 50 lakh contained in the locker.
After her husband’s dying, the girl shifted to Lucknow and was unable to go to the department recurrently. Nonetheless, locker prices continued to be deducted from her checking account, main her to consider that the locker remained lively.
When she lately approached the financial institution to entry it, she was instructed that the locker information weren’t instantly out there following the merger. After the financial institution traced the related particulars and verified the information, she was finally allowed to open the locker.
What she discovered inside, nonetheless, was an empty compartment.
The girl then approached the police, claiming that the jewelry and different valuables she had stored within the locker had been lacking. Following her grievance, an FIR was registered at Swaroop Nagar police station in opposition to the department supervisor and different financial institution staff.
Throughout the preliminary probe, police discovered entries indicating that the locker had been accessed beforehand. Investigators had been now inspecting the financial institution’s information, locker entry registers, CCTV footage and different paperwork to find out when the locker was opened and the way the property may have disappeared.
The investigation continues to be underway, with police working to ascertain who accessed the locker and whether or not there have been lapses within the financial institution’s record-keeping or locker safety.
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