A city-based banker, Sanjeev Makkar, has been booked by Kotwali police of Bathinda, for allegedly clearing a loan of Rs 12.5 crore in connivance with Rajinder Gupta, an exporter, a year back. Gupta had applied for a loan in the Kikkar branch of a nationalised bank. Makkar is one of four bankers posted there then, who have been booked in the case.

Sources said that Makkar, an assistant general manager, who is now posted at the bank's branch in Bandra West, went on leave on Monday when the case was registered. He was booked on the complaint of Kunal Garg, also an exporter. "Gupta had applied for Working Capital Limit and his wife, daughter, sister-in-law and one more relative were the guarantors. When he failed to repay the loan, the matter was escalated to the Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) which issued summons to me in January 2019," Garg told mid-day.