All India Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament (MP), Kalyan Banerjee, has reportedly fallen prey to cyber fraud as ₹55 lakh has been embezzled from his State Financial institution of India (SBI) meeting checking account, reported the information portal Anandabazar on Friday, 7 November 2025.
In keeping with the information portal citing individuals conscious of the event, the SBI authorities have filed an official grievance associated to the fraud with the cybercrime division.
How did Kalyan Banerjee be taught concerning the fraud?
Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee claimed that the SBI department supervisor of the Excessive Courtroom department referred to as him on Thursday, 6 November 2025, and advised him concerning the ₹55 lakh fraud.
In keeping with the information portal’s report, Banerjee’s picture and cellular quantity had been used to first switch ₹55 lakh from his primary checking account with the SBI Kalighat department, Kolkata.
After the funds had been transferred to the dormant account within the SBI Meeting sub-branch, the funds had been withdrawn utterly from there.
Kalyan Banerjee, who’s an MP from Serampore, West Bengal, was dissatisfied after listening to the information concerning the cyber fraud. Kolkata Police’s cybercrime division has reportedly began an investigation into the incident.
“In the event you hold cash within the financial institution, criminals will take it, and should you hold cash at house, Narendra Modi will take it,” stated Kalyan Banerjee, cited within the information portal’s report.
Was Kalyan Banerjee’s account dormant?
Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee’s account with the State Financial institution of India Meeting sub-branch was opened in his identify when he served as a Member of the Legislative Meeting (MLA) from 2001 to 2006. The SBI Meeting sub-branch is underneath the Excessive Courtroom Department of the State Financial institution of India.
Kalyan Banerjee’s account was opened on the similar SBI Meeting sub-branch together with different MLAs at the moment. In keeping with the information portal’s report, the entire MP’s allowances, which he acquired as an MLA at the moment, had been deposited in the identical checking account.
Banerjee reportedly has not made any transactions via that meeting checking account over a very long time, and consequently, the checking account was a ‘dormant account.’
In keeping with a weblog submit from ICICI Financial institution, a dormant account is a checking account which has been stored inactive for an prolonged interval, typically over one 12 months. Banks mark these dormant accounts as inactive to forestall unauthorised actions if the proprietor forgets concerning the account.
The information portal’s report highlighted that the fraudsters allegedly used that account to commit the cyber fraud.
