Following direction from the Metropolitan Magistrate court, the Delhi police have filed a first information report (FIR) against Shikha Sharma, chief executive of Axis Bank as well as its chief operating officer and several senior officials of the Bank. The Court had also asked the police to conduct an investigation into a complaint filed by Golf Technologies (P) Ltd in an alleged fraud of Rs20 crore.
In the complaint, Delhi-based Golf Technologies alleged that the Bank officials forged signature of its director to release Rs19.89 crore from the company’s term loan account to current account of a third party. The Company alleged that by forging signatures of its director Sandeep Sagar on a letter of instruction, the Bank transferred the money.