Bank employee, aide get 7-year jail for siphoning off money

A Barasat court on Thursday convicted a private bank employee and his associate for siphoning off money from the account of a customer and sentenced them to seven years in jail.

The accused, Bappaditya Biswas and his aide Samiran Saha, were charged under Sections 409 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating), 419 (cheating by impersonation), 468 (purpose of cheating), 469 (forgery), 471 (whoever fraudulently or dishonestly uses as genuine any document) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.

The investigation in the case was carried out by the Bidhannagar cyber crime police station and the chargesheet was filed in October 2020.