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NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Sept 6: Officers of the United Bank on Saturday decided to lodge an FIR against the cashier of the bank’s Kotri Kabir branch after over Rs3.2 million was stolen form the bank.
The cashier, Illahi Bux Rajpar, resident of the Amir Bux Rajpar village, is missing since Thursday night and has not been traced despite efforts of the bank administration.
On Friday, when the bank safe was opened in the presence of senior bank officials, it was found that Rs3,223,900 was short.
The area operational manager, Naushahro Feroze, Ghulam Mohammad Sehto, after being informed by branch manager Ghulam Sarwar Bhatti, reached Kotri Kabir and got approval from the head office for lodging a case against the cashier.
When contacted by this correspondent, the branch manager said the cashier had stolen the safe keys from his drawer.
He said the watchman of the branch, Aftab Sethar, told him that when he was going to Naushahro Feroze with daily voucher on Thursday he asked the cashier to leave the office but he told him that he would close the bank after finishing his work.
UBL area manager Mohammad Yousuf Kancho and area operational manager confirmed the theft and said the branch manager had left for Mehrabpur to lodge an FIR against the cashier.
HUNGER STRIKE: Scores of people, led by PPP leader Syed Aftab Ali Shah, observed a token hunger strike in Kandiaro the other day against deteriorating law and order situation, absence of doctors from government hospitals and disconnection of power to streetlights in the town.
They said theft incidents had become the order of the day. They pointed out that recently Hanif Rajput, a trader, and Abdul Jabbar Qureshi, were deprived of their cash in the town.
The protesters said 20 doctors, including seven lady doctors, were posted at the Taluka Hospital Kandiaro but no one was available at night.
