Chhattisgarh Police said on Sunday they have arrested a former deputy manager of a nationalized bank for cheating six farmers of Rs 50 lakhs on the pretext of providing them loans in Bilaspur district.
Bilaspur Superintendent of Police Deepak Kumar Jha said along with former deputy manager Prabodh Kumar Das, accomplice Heeralal Sahu was also held.
Das, who hails from Odisha, was arrested on Saturday and Sahu, from Bilaspur district, on Sunday.
They cheated four farmers in 2016 and two others in 2019 when Das was posted at the Sarkanda branch in Bilaspur city.
Initially, they offered them farm loans and took from them signed bank cheques. Later, they fraudulently withdrew the loan amount through those cheques.
Das was arrested from Bhubaneshwar and Sahu in Dhaurabhata village.