New Delhi: The bank lockers are one of the safest places where the account holders keep their valuable items for the protection. The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police is likely to probe a case in which important things kept inside the locker of a bank in South Delhi went missing in the year 2017. The following case was earlier registered at Kotla Mubarakpur police station.
Police sources claimed that the case will be transferred to the Crime Branch of Delhi Police for a detailed probe. The complainant who is 72-year-old man, had filed a case with the Delhi Police in August 2017 where it was claimed that he had opened a joint locker facility with his wife in a bank situated in Chanakyapuri where they had kept the valuables inside. In the year 2016, when the locker was checked the important things were inside.
In the year 2017 (June), when the complainant returned from Himachal Pradesh to his house in Nizamuddin area, he found the letter regarding the locker shifting from the bank. "When contacted the bank officials, the elderly person was told that the lockers were shifted to South Extension branch of the said bank," said police. The complainant reached the South Extension branch where he found the locker but when it was opened and the valuable was missing. The complainant further claimed that the bank staff were unable to give the answer regarding the missing of valuables.
The complainant registered a case with the police station Chanakyapuri and later it was transferred to another police station in South Delhi. A case has been registered under sections 409 (Criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent) of the Indian Penal Code.
Police sources claimed that the reason behind the transfer of the case to the Crime Branch is for the detailed probe to look if any conspiracy is behind the incident.
One more similar type of case has been registered with the South Delhi Police.