India, Feb. 24 -- The Haryana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has registered a case against employees of IDFC First Bank and AU Small Finance Bank, alongside unidentified public servants, to probe suspected fraudulent transactions worth Rs.590 crore involving government department accounts.

Director General, ACB, AS Chawla said that the FIR was lodged at the ACB's Panchkula police station following a February 23 communication from Haryana chief secretary Anurag Rastogi. The case invokes Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act, which targets criminal misconduct by public servants.

The ACB has also applied several provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including Section 316(5): Criminal breach of trust by a banker or...