The Tamil Nadu police arrested three men for running fake State Bank Of India (SBI) branch. Among the three held, one was the son of former bank employees.
Ambethkar, an Inspector of Police at Panruti, has confirmed the development and said the police have arrested three people including the mastermind Kamal Babu, an unemployed youth whose parents were former bank employees.
His father died 10 years ago, while his mother retired from a bank two years ago.
It is reportedly said that the other wo people who were arrested also includes a person who runs the printing press from where all the receipts, challans and other documents were printed. The other was into printing rubber stamps.
Soon after, the matter was escalated to Zonal office, which in turn informed the Branch Manager that only only two branches of SBI are running in Panruti, and no third branch had been opened.
SBI officials visited the place (the duplicate branch) and were surprised when they saw the entire set, which was exactly like a bank branch, with all the systems and infrastructure in place. SBI officials immediately launched a complaint following the three people were arrested, said police officials. They added that thankfully no transactions had taken place, so no one lost money. All three were presented in court.
