Man submits bogus FD receipt of Rs71.25 crore in bank, held

The MRA Marg police have arrested a 45-year old Pune resident for allegedly trying to cheat a bank with a fake fixed deposit (FD) receipt of Rs71.25 crore. The police are probing from where the accused got the bogus receipt made.

The arrested person has been identified as Mukund Devlikar, a resident of Karve Nagar in Pune.

According to the police, the complainant works in a nationalised bank at Fort. Around 1.30pm on Thursday, a woman named Ashwini Ojha along with one Kiran Dale-Patil submitted an FD receipt of Rs71.25 crore issued on January 1 in the name of Vijay Prakash Agrawal, a resident of Vasant Vihar in New Delhi.

"The couple made inquiries with the complainant (bank official), about the authenticity of the receipt. On inspecting, it was learnt that the receipt was fake as it was never issued by the bank. Senior bank officials were then informed about the incident and they reported the matter to the police," said an officer from MRA Marg police station.

The officer added that during the inquiry Ojha and Dale-Patil informed the police that one Mukund Devlikar had given them the receipt. "Later, we apprehended Devlikar. "Devlikar had tried to cheat the bank by using a fake FD receipt through Ojha and Dale-Patil, who were known to him," the officer said.

Devlikar has been booked under sections 465, (punishment for forgery), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document), 420 (cheating) and 511 (punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment) of the Indian Penal Code and is in police custody till August 19, police said.