Kolhapur: Six people of a family have been booked by the Karveer police for allegedly taking loan of Rs 22.44 lakh from a bank by submitting fake land documents.The action was taken after a bank official suspected the authenticity of the documents and lodged a complaint in this regard. According to police, the incident took place between October 2016 and October 2018.“The manager of the bank’s Warange branch lodged a complaint after he realised that these six have cheated the bank,” an officer attached with Karveer police station said.“During the above mentioned period, the suspects, including two women, applied for crop loan and loan for pipeline for their agricultural land to the bank and submitted adequate documents for the same. They had submitted the 7/12 extract and other land records from village Mhalsawade with signature and stamp of talathi in-charge. After confirming the documents the bank officials sanctioned the loan and transferred the amount worth Rs 22.44 lakh to the saving accounts of these six people. They later withdrew the amount from their accounts,” he said.The officer added that the complainant, while scrutinising the documents submitted by the suspects, sent a letter to the tehsildar to confirm the 7/12 extracts and land records of the property mentioned by these people. “The tehsildar sent a letter to the bank stating that the details sent by the bank does not match with the original record available with the revenue department. Realising that these people have cheated the bank, the bank official lodged complaint with us,” he said.“We have booked them under several sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) including section 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 465 (forgery), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 470 (forged document or electronic record), 471 (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record), 472 (making or possessing counterfeit seal, etc., with intent to commit forgery punishable under section), 473 (making or possessing counterfeit seal, etc., with intent to commit forgery punishable otherwise) section 474 (having possession of document described in Section 466 or 467, knowing it to be forged and intending to use it as genuine). We have not arrested them but will soon take action,” he added.

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