Monday, July 18, 2011

Witness CBI search

Myself and Mr Rajagopal were nominated for going as witness for CBI search.
We went to the CBI office exactly at 6 am. We were asked to come to the Office and nothing more would be said. The Bank had arranged a Car. There was no sign of any person. Rajagopal pressed the calling bell. I was going for the first time ( i all along hated it but Mr Viswanathan, CM avoided me, i wanted to go for once. On hearing the bell, somebody said 'good morning" pl wait and they were telling themselves.."Witness aya". We, then told them that we would return after a cup of tea. We, returned and sat inside the office for some time when Mr.Sahib the Inspector of IB came and shook hands with us.
We then got into the car. The car moved on and they asked the driver to go to Vattiyoorkavu. When we reached the place, one or two persons were enquired of the "Chitra Nagar" and we then saw a board. Inside the lane, we went to D3. We got down and still we do not know who the person was. We went in and only then we knew that it was one Mr.C G Nair, DGM, Canara Bank. I felt bad, because i was also a banker.

We were a party for a search team of CBI. His wife opened the door and the Inspector asked Mr.C G Nair. He was sleeping. After some time he came and Inspector handed over the CBI letter and he signed on it. The search began from the Hall.All the files, paper by paper,in each racks and the Inspector collected some papers.

The DGM and his family seemed cool. He said that he has seen such searches when he was a Vigilance Officer.
His son has resigned Mahindra and is here before proceeding to IIT Chennai for M Tech. I felt bad as to how this child would feel.

The case was on a complaint filed by his own Bank on a loan to a Media group run by a former Congress MP from Guwahati. His family jagada lead to this.
Though an internal enquiry was over, a new CVO gave this complaint to CBI.

The CBI Officer arranged Appam and curry for us. After all the rooms were searched, the man from Delhi for whom the Tvm team did the search was consulted and a list was prepared.
The fixed deposit receipts and a number of watches received as gifts were all returned back.
After all rooms were searched, the locker keys were taken custody. One locker was at their Sasthamangalam and other at Cantonment. On the way to Sasthamangalam, we had lunch and the search was over at 4.30 p m. The DGM's wife had only some 600 gm ornaments. And they decided to go to search Cantonment locker tomorrow.

We bid bye to DGM, the Manager of the branch Mr.Janardhanan. We returned back to Santhinagar CBI office, by 5 p.m.

What will happen, tomorrow. the whole Canara Bank would come to know of it as if this DGM had extended a bad loan. He had extended only the last portion of the remaining term loan. But in between the Bank had been asked to stop transactions by one of the Direcotrs of the company, which the Bank did not accept on being advised by the Law department.

Why the DGM relaeased the loan was to be asked to him. But this case not being a case in Kerala, and because this Inspector seemed to be a good officer, this went as a cool affair. The CBI officials kept back rack by rack the files taken out. Nothing was shattered and the place never did see as if it is a search operation.

But let people dont give loans..

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