Pvt finance company Manager and appraiser booked for misusing credentials of customer to sanction loan to other person

Pramesh S Jain 

The Yeshwanthpur police have registered a cheating case against manager of a private finance company and its appraiser for misusing her credentials of one of their customer to sanction a loan to another person.

The fraud came to light when the victim,a team leader of BPO company approached a bank seeking private loan two years later and found through the cibil score which mentioned that there was a pending loan of Rs.61,400 pending against her.

Shocked victim further checked to know that the (Manappuram)finance company in which she had availed a loan three years ago and cleared the due,have misused her IDs to sanction loan .

The victim in her complaint said that she had availed a gold loan of Rs.50,000 by pledging 16.7 grams of valuables in June 2022.

Unable to pay the EMIs,for few months,she had asked the company to sell the gold to recover the money and also signed the consent form.

The accused including the manager of the firm and the appraiser colluded and used her ID, photos and other details to sanction loan in her name to another person in February 2023,which was pending till date .

The police based on the complaint registered a case against the manager identified as Latha and appresiar , Dilip,charging them under criminal breach of trust, cheating,forgery on Monday for further investigation.