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Offences of criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust by public servant and criminal misconduct by public servant have been made out against Dalvi under sections of Corruption Act, 1988 and Indian Penal Code.
The accused was employed as a special assistant posted as single window operator and she was suspended on November 28, 2016 after SBI’s disciplinary committee conducted a preliminary internal investigation into the unauthorised exchange of demonetized denominations of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 for legal tender through her user ID.
The exchange was carried out without submission of KYC documents and the mandatory declarations. During the investigation, it came to light that in order to avoid the detection of her illegal acts, Dalvi intentionally resorted to the use of general swap menu instead of the prescribed Cashex menu for carrying out the exchanges.
SBI Regional Business Officer questioned the irregularity during the internal investigation.
Upon being questioned, Dalvi confessed to exchanging her Specified Bank Notes (SBNs) worth Rs 11.36 lakh and claimed that the amount was gifted to her by her parents over the recent years. However, she couldn’t back her claims with documentary evidence.
Two more employees exchanged their SBN using Dalvi’s user ID
and they stated that they had withdrawn the money shortly before the demonetization was announced.
As per the initial investigation by the CBI, the amount of Rs 13.01 lakh was exchanged in parts ranging from Rs 9,000 to Rs three lakh over ten days from November
10 to 19, 2016, right after the policy of demonetization was announced.
RBI guidelines had asked banks to allow exchange of old notes up to Rs 4,000 per person while the limit on ATM transactions was set at Rs 2,000 per day per card till November 19.
The FIR was registered by ACB, CBI, Bambolim under Section 13 (ii) read with 13 (i) (c) and (d) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and Section 120-B read with 409 of IPC after a complaint was filed on December 15, 2016 by SBI Bambolim branch manager Sumala Naik.
CBI-ACB inspector Nilesh Shirodkar is heading the investigation into the matter.
