Coimbatore. A special court for CBI cases in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, has convicted two government school teachers in a bank loan fraud case and sentenced them to three-and-a-half years in prison.
The court also imposed a fine of ₹1 lakh on each of them. The case relates to loans obtained from the State Bank of India in 2021 using allegedly forged documents.
The Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court found that the two teachers had submitted allegedly forged documents related to their government employment and postings to obtain the loans. The court convicted them of cheating and forgery after examining the evidence presented during the trial.
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According to the case, one of the teachers was working at a government school in Krishnagiri district at the time. In 2021, he obtained a loan of ₹13.50 lakh from SBI’s Sathyamangalam branch. To secure the loan, he submitted documents showing that he was employed as a government school teacher in Erode district. The documents were later found to be allegedly forged during the investigation.
The second teacher was working at a government school in Dharmapuri district when he obtained a ₹12 lakh loan from the same SBI branch in 2021. He allegedly submitted documents showing that he was a government school teacher posted in Erode district. The bank later found discrepancies in the documents and they were allegedly determined to be forged.
A few months after obtaining the loans, both teachers changed their salary accounts. Their monthly loan instalments had been deducted from their SBI salary accounts. The change in salary accounts prompted the bank to examine the loan accounts and the documents submitted by the borrowers.
During the inquiry, the bank found that the employment and posting documents submitted with the loan applications did not match the actual records. After the alleged forgery came to light, the bank lodged a complaint in 2024 seeking an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The CBI subsequently investigated the case and examined the loan applications, bank records and employment-related documents of the two teachers. After completing the investigation, the agency filed a chargesheet against them in 2025. The case then proceeded before the special court, which examined the documentary and other evidence before finding both teachers guilty of cheating and forgery.
The two teachers were not present in court when the judgment was delivered. The prosecution said that both were still working in government service. As they failed to appear for the judgment, the court also issued non-bailable warrants against them.
The court sentenced both convicted teachers to three-and-a-half years of imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₹1 lakh on each. The case centred on the alleged use of forged documents relating to government employment and postings to obtain bank loans.
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