ALWAR: In a bizarre turn of events, money worth Rs 1.96 crore that was siphoned off from the bank accounts of several farmers from a cooperative bank, was ‘miraculously’ deposited back into the accounts with interest.Officials told TOI that in January earlier this year, the irregularities were detected in the Behror branch of the central co-operative bank. The allegations included that money was siphoned off from the bank accounts of several farmers without their knowledge. The bank authorities later suspended computer programmer Bhupendra Bhardwaj, Ankit Sharma, branch manager Jagdish Regar , loan supervisor Kalu Ram and cashier Jai Singh Tanwar.An investigation was also set-up into the matter, and an FIR was filed by the bank authorities on March 13. However, even as the investigation was being carried out into the case, money to the tune of Rs two crore was deposited back into the same accounts from which it was first withdrawn, leaving cops perplexed. Both the police and the banking officials claimed to have no knowledge of the events as they unravelled in these accounts. “The case is currently under investigation and we have already suspended five persons in the case. We are checking as to how the money got back into these accounts,” said Ashok Sharma, a senior bank official.The police officials told TOI that the money was siphoned off about two months ago but the bank officials sat on the matter for several days and filed the FIR only on March 13.The cops said that it is very unlikely in the age of digital banking system that such huge amount of money could be withdrawn and then easily infused back. Sources said that they are trying to track down the channel used to deposit the money back into the accounts.

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