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| Crime Branch, Jammu registers FIR against online fraudsters | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 8: In order to unearth the fraudsters who dupe the innocent public by impersonating online as officials of the Bank and thereby withdrawing money from their accounts illegally, Crime Branch, Jammu has registered an FIR against a notorious gang of cheats.
A preliminary enquiry was conducted in Crime Branch, Jammu on a complaint of one BSF official namely Sudama of Village Sirsa P/O Bela Mau Saraiya Distt. Kannauj presently at posted in 200 Bn. BSF VOP SM Pur (Ramgarh Sector) wherein it was alleged that he received a phone call from a cell number wherein the caller identified himself as Manager of State Bank of India and asked him to share the PIN of his debit card on the pretext of making correction in Bank records and thereafter from 20.12.2013 to 20.01.2014 an amount of 2,77,300 was withdrawn by some unknown person(s) from his Bank account and in this way the accused persons had cheated him of his hard earned money.
During the course of enquiry, bank transaction details of the account were obtained and it was found that fraudulent withdrawals/Internet purchases worth 2,77,300/- have been made through the account numbers of Prashant Kumar Varnawal, Pradeep Mahto, Sohan Singh all residents of Jharkhand Laishram Robel Singh of Chajing Karam, Imphal, Shyamal Hazra of Kolkata, Ananya Dutta of Mahatama Gandhi Road Kolkata, Ajay Kumar Gupta of Radha Madhav Shah Lane Ram Mandir Jorisaku Kolkataand unknown persons. It was established during the enquiry that a gang of cheats and fraudsters including the above named persons call innocent persons introducing them as Bank employees/managers and seek PIN details of their ATM/Debit Cards on the pretext of making certain corrections in the bank records with malafide intentions in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy hatched between themselves and after obtaining the PIN details withdraw the money from the bank accounts by resorting to fraudulent means in order to cause wrongful loss to the innocent account holders and wrongful gains to themselves. Accordingly, a case under FIR No. 25/2014 under sections 419, 420, 465, 466, 467, 468, 471,120-B RPC r/w Sec. 66C & 66D of the I.T Act. 2000 was registered in Crime Branch, Jammu and further investigation has been taken up. SSP Crime Branch, Jammu Mubassir Latifi said that number of similar complaints have been received in Crime Branch from different parts of Jammu province where innocent people have been duped of their money by misleading and impersonation. All those complaints would also be investigated, the whole racket of these tricksters would be unearthed and culprits would be brought to book. |
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