Syndicate Bank has posted a net profit of Rs 79.13 crore for the fiscal first quarter that ended on June 30, 2016.
The state-owned bank had registered a net profit of Rs 301.98 crore for the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year.
The results are not comparable on account of an exceptional write-off.
"Previous quarter results are not comparable with the current quarter since there was an exceptional item of write off on account of fraud at three branches of Jaipur region," it said in a regulatory filing.
Transactions of these three branches are under investigation, pending which no additional provision is considered necessary during the quarter, it added.
Total income of the bank stood at Rs 6,419.12 crore in the reported quarter. It was at Rs 6,323.42 crore in the year-ago period, it said in the filing.
Gross NPAs were 7.53 per cent of gross advances in the June quarter of the current fiscal year. In the year-ago period,
it was 3.72 per cent. Net NPAs stood at 5.04 per cent in the quarter under review as against 2.36 per cent in the corresponding quarter of 2015-16.
Syndicate Bank said it has upgraded NPAs of Rs 220.42 crore and also made recoveries of Rs 444.70 crore.
"Out of the total cash recover, the cash recovery in domestic NPAs amounted to Rs 444.70 crore which includes cash recovery in prudentially written off accounts amounting to Rs 82.35 crore," it said.
"To accelerate recovery performance under NPA, during the current financial year, one Bruhat Synd Adalat was conducted. Bank has mobilised 16,648 proposals involving one time settlement amount of Rs 84.69 crore," the bank added.
Among other key metrics, Syndicate Bank's interest income stood at Rs 1,479 crore during April-June of 2016-17. It was Rs 1,412 crore a year earlier.
However, the bank registered fall in global business at Rs 4.68 lakh crore from Rs 4.72 lakh crore a year ago. Hence, global deposits also fell to Rs 2.63 lakh crore from Rs 2.69 lakh crore.
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