A LEAF FROM MY LIFE – XXXI (Secret Operation). Dilar Singh an aggressive type of clerk was at B.O. Sector-17. After my joining B.O. Sector-16 he requested me to get him transferred to my office. The aggressive employees were considered nuisance and trouble creators but my thinking was different. I used to feel that if energies of these people are canalised, they are more potential and can give better output and would be ready to do all those work which normal employee cannot do. In Sector-17 also I took maximum work from this category of employees. At his request, I got Daler transferred to my office. Whatever work was given to him, he was doing gladly, even over and above his normal duties and was respectful also. He was allotted Draft Issue, Draft payable and Clearing Seat. The Balances of the branch were not tallied for the last many years especially that of the Draft Payable. I cannot recall what exactly happened but one day I found certain actions of Delar Singh were suspicious and I put him under lens without telling any one in the office. Delar too became conscious of it. I felt some thing wrong had been done in the draft payable as he was on this seat. I already had put special team for tallying the draft balances while sitting late in the evening. I reinforced the staff. I called my friend N.D.Gomber from Yamuna Nagar and R.P. Kakkar, Manager Sector-22 was generous to send his clerk, Subhash Gupta to assist me. One day, it was holiday, when we were tallying the draft payable balances late in the evening. Om Parkash, peon who was retrained for help just went out side the office and he found Delar Singh was standing near the branch. On seeing Om Parkash he inquired from him whether ‘Draft issue balances had been tallied’. Om Parkash told him that they were tallying draft payable balances. When Om Parkash came in the branch he told me in confidence that Daler Singh was standing out side and he had asked him if the ‘Draft Issue balances had been tallied’. Immediately, it struck me that there might be some thing wrong in the draft issue. There was no procedure of tallying the Draft Issue balances as all these inter branch entries were reconciled at the Head Office. The following day, I took my friend, Vinod Prem, into confidence and asked for his help in reconciling the draft issue entries with the vouchers and draft issued counter foils and requested him to come to my residence after dinner and advised him to keep that matter secret. In the after noon without disclosing the purpose, I told draftri that the draft issue counter foils, draft issue registers and vouchers for the past two three months be left at my residence after office hour. My residence was on the first floor of the office itself and the record room was on the second floor. The operation was kept so secret that none in the office could know it. As usual the staff was tallying the draft payable balances during the working hours and this job of verifying the draft issue counter-foils with the vouchers was to be done by me with the help of Vinod Prem late at night secretly. While reconciling, we found that one draft for a few hundred rupees and other for a few thousand rupees were issued on Kalka branch without any voucher. Next day, I enquired about these two drafts from the Manager, Kalka branch on telephone in confidence. The Manager was quick to tell me that that payment of these two drafts were taken by our Delar Singh who came to his office with one young lady, on two different occasions, a few days earlier. I told the branch Manager that he should wait for me in the branch after the office hours with the record and told him that matter be kept secret. In the evening I went to Kalka branch. The drafts paid by the branch were kept ready for my verification. Delar Singh issued these drafts in favour of his sister-in-law (wife’s sister) and went with her to take the payment and a local employee (Mohinder Singh) of the branch verified her signatures. We ensured that the matter should not be leaked out to either of the branches. The matter was discussed with the R. M. at his residence after coming from Kalka and then with the help of R.N.Narula, Banks senior advocate F.I.R. was lodged with the police station at Sector-17 and it was also ensured that no body should know of the FIR also. The next morning the Police came silently to the branch, the staff was busy in the half-yearly closing work and I was sitting in my cabin and the Police came and dramatically arrested Delar Singh from the Banking Hall and took him away. The members of the staff were stunned to see this sudden development. Certain staff members rushed to me in shock and asked me how the police could arrest Delar Singh from the bank without my consent. I disclosed them that the he was arrested with my consent and disclosed them how Delar Singh had committed the fraud. All the members of our staff were stunned to know it and my conviction was also shaken.
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