NEW DELHI: Tightening its noose in bank extortion cases worth Rs 7,000 crore, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday completed look at more than 169 areas the nation. 

A senior CBI officer said the agency is directing searches Andhra Pradesh, Chandigarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. 

The authority said the office has enrolled around 35 instances of fakes including Rs 7,000 crore. The authority, be that as it may, didn't uncover the names of denounced engaged with the case. 

He said the banks associated with the fakes (counting consortium individuals) are Andhra Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Indian Overseas Bank, SBI, Allahabad Bank, Canara Bank, Dena Bank, Punjab and Sind Bank, Punjab National Bank, Central Bank of India, Union Bank of India, IDBI Bank, Bank of Baroda, Bank of Maharashtra, Bank of India. 

Delhi, Gurgaon, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Dehradun, Noida, Baramati, Mumbai, Thane, Silvassa, Kalyan, Amritsar, Faridabad, Bengaluru, Tirupur, Chennai, Madurai, Quilon, Cochin, Bhavnagar, Surat, Ahmedabad, Kanpur, Ghaziabad, Varanasi, Chandauli, Bathinda, Gurdaspur, Morena, Kolkata, Patna and Hyderabad are among the cities the searches are being  conducted in. 

This isn't the first time the Central government probe agency has done such a massive search operation. It has led a few comparative inquiries in bank fraud cases over the recent couple of months.