A man named Yasin K Shaikh has been sentenced to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) by a Special CBI Court in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur for his involvement in a bank fraud case. Along with the imprisonment, he was also fined Rs 14,000. The case was registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on December 29, 2011, following a complaint from Canara Bank.
Shaikh was found guilty of conniving with bank officials to secure a fraudulent ‘Canmobile’ loan amounting to Rs 5 lakh for the purchase of a car that he already owned. He was accused of submitting false and forged documents while concealing the information about a previous loan taken for the same vehicle. The CBI highlighted that the accused managed to secure a loan for his own vehicle twice, which exceeded the financial limits set for public servants and violated bank regulations.
In a separate incident, the CBI arrested Kokku Gopinath, an Inspector of Posts in the Wanaparthy Division of Telangana, for soliciting a bribe. Gopinath was apprehended while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000 from a complainant. The case, registered on May 7, accused Gopinath and others of extorting Rs 1.30 lakh from the complainant and demanding a bribe of Rs 30,000 to release the complainant’s pending salary. The CBI conducted a successful operation, catching Gopinath red-handed during the bribe exchange.
