Coop bank employee alleges death threat from bank official

An employees union functionary of a co-operative bank here has lodged a police complaint alleging that a top official had issued a death threat to him for protesting against alleged irregularities in the bank.
In the complaint filed on behalf of the union, South Canara District Central Co-operative (SCDCC) Bank Employees Union office-bearer Chandraprakash said the bank official summoned him to his chamber and gave the murder threat since the union was raising the alleged irregularities in the bank.
City police commissioner M Chandra Sekhar said that legal opinion would be sought before registering a first information report on the basis of the complaint.

The SCDCC bank had been in the news recently on account of allegations of accepting crores of rupees worth of scrapped high value notes during the demonetisation exercise without following the procedures.
The Income Tax officials had conducted a search in the bank last month following the reports.