GUWAHATI: A lady deputy manager, Olivia Dutta Choudhury, of Bhangagarh branch of IndusInd Bank in the city, who had decamped after siphoning off about Rs 3.70 crore from bank accounts of customers, was remanded to 4-days police custody by the court of chief judicial magistrate here on her production befire the court on Wednesday.
She was arrested from Moradabad by a team of city police on Sunday and was brought here on Tuesday evening on a transit remand from Noida.
Police started tracking her after City four FIRs were filed against her by three of the cheated bank customers and the bank branch. She went missing from July 27 last. Police said she along with her seven-month-old baby, her mother, and the maid first went of New Delhi by Rajdhani Express. After staying four days in Delhi she went to Nainital and stayed there in a resort. Police caught her at Moradabad after she had escaped from the Nainital resort.
Police recovered Rs 27 lakh in cash from her possession while she sad that she had left behind one bag with Rs 10 lakh in Guwahati railway station fearing detection during the checking. She had withdrawn Rs 43 lakh from her account before fleeing the city.
Her husband Shankar Sinha, who was till recently with the Gangtok branch of the same bank, was already arrested last week from New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal in connection with the case.
City police has also arrested an accomplice Bishwajit Ghose who used to help the bank official procure fake insurance documents in return of hefty cuts.
