The impugned FIR has been lodged by the informant-respondent no.3 on account of the fact that her sister-in-law, namely, Gunjan Varshney has made a complaint to the Lokayukt, Uttar Pradesh about depositing huge amount of old currency note of Rs. 1000/- and Rs. 500/- in demonetization period in the year 2016-17, in her account and in the account of informant and others being the husband of the informant, who is working in the Entertainment Tax Department at Ghaziabad. She also submitted that the bank has to maintain the confidentiality and computer generated copy of her bank account, could not have been issued/provided to her sister-in-law without the permission of the informant and for that reason the impugned FIR has been lodged by her against two bank officers, namely, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Branch Manager and two private persons, namely, Gunjan Varshney and Ashutosh Chandra Varshney. In whole of the FIR, no role has been assigned to the petitioner herein, with respect to the alleged issuance of computer generated copy of the bank account of the informant to unauthorized persons. That apart, petitioner has joined as Managing Director/CEO at Punjab National Bank on 01.10.2019 whereas the alleged incident is prior to 01.10.2019. Thus, from the perusal of the impugned first information report, no offence is made out against the petitioner.
