DINESH SINGH
Saroj Ramchandra Dasani – Appellant
Versus
Branch Manager, State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur – Respondent
ORDER
Taken up through video conferencing.
Dinesh Singh, Presiding Member.—Heard learned Counsel for the Complainant and learned Counsel for the Opposite Party Bank, which is a scheduled nationalized bank.
Perused the entire material on record.
2. The Complaint relates to alleged theft of “valuable papers” and “ornaments” “amounting to Rs. 1,30,25,000/-” from the bank locker of the Complainant.
3. Learned Counsel for the Opposite Party Bank submits that this matter requires adjudication of issues that involve disputed factual questions which should not be adjudged in summary proceedings, but adjudged in a civil court.
4. Ready appreciation of the specificities of the case can inter alia be made from the following extracts of the Complaint itself:
“3. The complainant states that on 02.06.2008 she visited the opponent bank and opened the locker after keeping some valuables thereon, she locked the locker.
4. The complainant further states that on 03.07.2008 she received one postal Envelope containing bunch of three keys including the key of locker, allotted by the opponent bank. Then she recollected that, she left the keys behind at Bank on 02.06.2008, while taking / chatting with Shri Bri
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