UP: In the name of getting FD, the thugs duped the bank of Rs 10 lakh, this is how they got caught by the police

Police in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh have arrested two people for defrauding a Bank of Baroda branch of Rs 10 lakh. Both the accused were associated with a gang. One member of the gang is still absconding in this case.

The police have also recovered Rs 164000 cash from the arrested accused which was transferred to another account while their bank accounts have been frozen, there were Rs 3 lakh 90000 in these accounts.

48 mobile phones, 18 Aadhar cards, five PAN cards, five bank passbooks, cheque books of nine banks, Solar Debit Card, 584 passport size photographs, 13 driving licences and 30 mobile SIM cards were recovered from the accused.

All these documents were used for cyber fraud. Both the accused arrested are residents of Delhi. Police is also investigating other cases of fraud committed by them.

According to SP City Sanjeev Vajpayee, on August 21, the area manager of Bank of Baroda, Rajesh Kumar Khare, had lodged a complaint at the cyber police station and told that a call came on the phone of branch manager Shailaja Singal from his Bank of Baroda branch located in Bijnor.

Bank was defrauded of Rs 10 lakh

On this call, the unknown person told his name as Vivek Chaudhary and said that he is the owner of Hyundai Motors showroom in Bijnor. After this, the fraud said that he wants to invest Rs 3 crore in the bank as FD. The accused also sent a mail on the bank’s email ID on August 12 saying that his check book has run out and requested to send the money immediately.

Both the thugs were caught

After this, both the fraudsters transferred a total of Rs 9,88,500 through RTGS transaction, after which the bank manager realized that he had been cheated. After this, a case was registered in the cyber crime police station under the IT Act on behalf of the bank and an investigation was started.

The police also investigated the bank accounts opened by the accused in which three lakh ninety thousand rupees were found. The police also froze their bank accounts. The police is now preparing to take them on remand again.