4. It is submitted by Mr. Paramanik that after obtaining the order of interim pre-arrest bail dated 05.03.2026, the petitioner has already appeared before the I/O, cooperated in the investigation and his statement is also recorded by the I/O. Mr. Paramanik further submitted that being the Branch Manager his duty is not to verify the documents and being the Branch Manger those were supposed to be verified by the Field Officers as well as Service Manager and for the said duties only the persons are entrusted by the Bank. Further, he submitted that for a Branch Manager, it is not at all possible to verify all the documents in detail before approving the documents and on considering the verification report submitted by the Field Officer/Service Manager, the Branch Manager used to approve the note. He further submitted that he has faced departmental proceeding in this regard wherein he presently demoted to Deputy Manager and all the documents/loan sanctioned applications etc. are not in his custody and those were already seized by police during investigation. He further submitted that in the relevant period of time, the co-accused Rafikul Islam being the Service Manager had verified all the documents, on the basis of that verification report the approval was conduct by the present petitioner being the Branch Manager.
