A locker allotted to Sarathi Baba's adopted son Satyam Sekhar Roul at the SBI branch on College Road here which was opened at the behest of a Crime Branch team on Tuesday was found to be empty.
A three-member Crime Branch team led by Inspector RN Mohanty on Tuesday had been to the SBI branch to open the locker. The Crime Branch team earlier had asked the Branch Manager for opening the locker of Roul. Branch Manager Manoj Ranjan Das had given a notice to account holder Satyam and also to the family members of Sarathi to remain present on Tuesday while the locker was to be opened. However, neither Satyam nor family members of Sarathi on Tuesday came to the SBI branch office.
As a result, the locker bearing no 60 was broken open by the bank in the presence of Crime Branch officials, a bank lawyer, the SDPO of Kendrapada, a goldsmith, the bank locker-in-charge and the Service Engineer of Gunnebo India Private limited that had installed the locker in the branch.
Bank sources said the locker was allotted to Satyam on July 6 after he deposited Rs 862 for a year to avail of locker facility. He used the locker only once till date.
later, the Crime Branch personnel went to Allahabad Bank branch in order to seize the accounts of Sarathi, Satyam and the trustees of Satyam Charitable Trust. More than Rs 1 crore was in the accounts, informed Crime Branch sources. The documents and accounts were seized.