The Goregaon police on Wednesday booked two housekeeping staff of a nationalised bank for allegedly duping the bank of Rs 1.29 crore by fraudulently updating the KYC (Know your customer) details of a customer who had died eight years ago. Both the accused are absconding.

The incident came into light in July 2021 when a probe by the fraud monitoring team from Kolkata revealed that the KYC of an account holder from Kolkata, who had died 7 years ago was updated from the bank’s Goregaon branch office and around Rs 1.29 crore transferred into various bank accounts in Mumbai. On checking the CCTV footage, the Goregaon bank branch found that two housekeeping staff — Dilshad Khan and Altamash — were involved in the crime. The bank branch manager then approached the police and submitted a written complaint in this regard to the Goregaon police in January 2022.