Sakshi Gupta ICICI Bank: For common people, the bank is the place where they consider their lifelong savings to be safe, but a shocking incident that has come to light in Kota city of Rajasthan has shaken this trust. A woman officer working in a bank branch of the city committed fraud by secretly withdrawing crores of rupees from more than 100 accounts.

People's money wasted in the stock market

This fraud has come to light in Shriram Nagar branch of ICICI Bank located in DCM area of ​​Udyog Nagar Police Station in Kota, Rajasthan. The then relationship manager of the bank, Sakshi Gupta, is accused of quietly withdrawing money from customers' accounts for about two and a half years and investing it in the stock market. Police investigation has revealed that she transferred about Rs 3 crore from 110 accounts.

Arrested on 31 May, sent to jail

According to media reports, SI Ibrahim of Udyog Nagar police station said that this scam came to light after a report was lodged in February 2024. Sakshi was posted in this branch of the bank between 2020 and 2023. She was arrested on 31 May 2025 and was sent to jail after being produced in court.

Changed mobile number, captured OTP

Police investigation revealed that Sakshi Gupta changed the mobile numbers of many account holders and registered the numbers of her acquaintances. Due to this, any information related to the bank or transaction alerts were not reaching the real customers. Not only this, she misused the debit card, PIN and OTP to make illegal transactions and in many cases even activated the overdraft facility in the accounts. That too without the knowledge of the account holders.

This is how it was revealed

The matter came to light when a customer sought details of his fixed deposit of Rs 1.50 lakh. Investigation revealed that the amount had been transferred to another account without permission. After this, the accounts of other customers of the bank were also investigated, in which a big fraud was exposed.

'Pool Account' becomes the old lady's account

According to Kota Police, Sakshi Gupta used an old woman's account as a 'pool account'. About ₹3.22 crores were transferred to this account till February 2023. The old woman had no idea about this. From this account, Sakshi sent money to other accounts and invested in the market. Most of the money was lost in the stock market.

FDs of 31 customers were broken prematurely The investigation also revealed that Sakshi Gupta got the fixed deposits of 31 account holders broken prematurely and transferred the amount of about ₹ 1.34 crore to her chosen accounts. She also fraudulently took a personal loan of ₹ 3.40 lakh.

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