Niraj Pradhan jailed, and two employees released on bail

Jun Thu 2023 03:33:18

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Niraj Pradhan jailed, and two employees released on bail

Kathmandu. Niraj Pradhan, the main planner of the incident, among those arrested in the case of theft of customer's money from Everest Bank, has been sent to jail pending trial. He was sent to jail after the district court ruled that he should be sent to jail.

The other arrested employees are at large. This case is not over yet. It will take some time to settle the case. Court information officer Omraj Subedi informed that the Biratnagar High Court has ordered to release the two embezzlers worth Rs. Among those who have been released on ordinary dates are Bank Itahari branch manager Vishwaraj Shakya, 42, resident of Sindhupalchok Bahrbise 8, Bank Itahari branch supervisor Thora Lama, 37, junior assistants of the bank, Manoj Ghimire, 27, Devraj Sharma, 27, Ranjit Pandit, 27, teller of the bank's Itahari branch, 30 Pavitra Kattuwal is a year old. Similarly, the court has ordered 34-year-old Shankar Bhujel of Mithila Municipality 11 of Dhanusha and Ajay Khiuju, 27-year-old of Suryavinayak Municipality 2 of Bhaktapur to post a bond of Rs 7.7 lakh each.

Millions of customer's money in Everest Bank was stolen when the bank was extremely negligent by allowing the user and password of the computer used to connect IPS and verifying computer to be used by anyone. After the bank found that its employee Niraj Pradhan had stolen money from the customer's account during an internal investigation, Pradhan was handed over to the police. But after Pradhan took the names of other employees during the statement, the police arrested other employees as well.