Udupi: The police arrested two people, including a doctor, for submitting fake documents to avail loan from bank.

The arrested are Dr Rineta Sonia D'Souza (37) of Salmara in Tenkabettu and Vijay Kotari (42) of Chitrapadi.

On July 3, Rineta had approached Bank of Baroda, Moodabettu branch claiming that she was serving as doctor-cum-professor at Kasturba Hospital and Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) and was earning Rs 2,66,000 per month. She had sought a loan of 7.80 lakh to purchase a car. She had also sought a loan of Rs 16 lakh for her brother Akash D'Souza to purchase a car.
She had even submitted payslips from May 15, 2019, to July 2, 2020, along with IT Returns of 2017-18 and 2018-19 and the price list of the vehicle to be purchased, on July 13.

The bank manager inturn had verified the authenticity of the payslip with MAHE and found that she was not working at MAHE. Accordingly, bank manager Alwyn D'Souza filed a complaint at Kaup Police Station on the submission of fake documents to avail loan.

The police arrested Rineta, who later informed the police that Vijay Kotari had helped her create fake documents.

Based on the information given by her, the police arrested Kotari and seized a laptop used to create fake documents, said the police.