A Delhi court has dismissed a revision petition filed by an officer of the Punjab and Sind Bank who was charged with criminal breach of trust for sanctioning a loan on the basis of forged documents and without inspecting property.
A Metropolitan Magistrate court had framed charges against Ravinder Sidana of the bank’s Azadpur Branch in August last year.
Dismissing the revision plea, Additional Sessions Judge Ramesh Kumar said: “In the present matter, in the charge sheet, the name of Mr. Sidana has come as a banker, who had sanctioned a loan in violation of legally prescribed mode of sanctioning, on the basis of forged documents and without inspection of the property. In the FIR, the role attributed to the revisionist shows the involvement of the revisionist in the present offence, hence at this stage, the role of the revisionist cannot be overlooked....Revisionist will get ample opportunity during the trial to prove his innocence.”
