ALAPPUZHA: A chief judicial magistrate court has ordered police to file a case and start investigation against a woman, who extracted lakhs of money from the bank account of her aged father by deceit.

The order came in response to the petition submitted by Alappuzha Sanathanam ward Neelikkattu house resident N M Sugathan.
An ex-Checking inspector in KSRTC, Sugathan has been living with his son.

Despite her strained relationship her ailing father, his daughter got closer to him under the pretext of treating him and got some blank cheques signed from him, saying that she wanted money for his treatment.

According to the case, the woman took Rs 17,62,350 from District cooperative bank over several days, Rs 63,850 from KSFE Vellakkinar branch and Rs 19,900 from KSFE Mullakkal branch account. Besides this, she took Sugathan's pension amount of Rs 76800. Thus the total moneyshe took was Rs 19,22,990.

The incident came to light only after his son returned from Gulf and went to the bank with his father's cheque to withdraw money. After this, Sugathan approached the court through Adv V N Kiranlal.

Following the court order, Alappuzha North police have filed a case and started investigation.