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| Lady teacher duped by cheaters, withdraw Rs 80,000 from her ATM | | | Et Report
Jammu, Sept 5: Cheaters on prowl since last 40 days have again made it big by striking at Rajouri and duping a lady teacher of ATM card and withdrew Rs 80, 000 from her account in four attempts on September 3 & 4 at four places in Rajouri ,Poonch and Kashmir valley.On July 27 the same cheat had duped constable Mushtaq Ahmed and withdrew Rs 80,000 from his account in two attempts within 12 hours. Police during investigation has got the photograph of two cheats from CCTV footage and one of them was identified by the lady teacher today in the police station.
According to Gulshan Ara, a teacher in government middle school at Rajouri, she visited ATM at 'university morh' on Tuesday to draw some amount from her account.According to Gulashan Ara when she couldn't get response from the machine despite repeated attempts, she was approached by a person standing behind for the help."The cheat who was just behind me offered help. He said that I am not inserting the card properly. He took my card and in a fraction of seconds after replacing it (I couldn't detect on Tuesday) with another invalid card in the machine asked me to feed the code.Even when I couldn't get response from that card I left the ATM to withdraw money on Wednesday. But I was not aware that I had been duped by the cheat," said Gulshan Ara.She further added that on Wednesday at about 3 pm she got a call from the bank that four transactions were made successful from her account amounting Rs 20000 each at various places with in last 48 hours."We got suspicious and along with my husband, who is headmaster in the same school, we rushed to bank. The officials told us that Rs 20000 each was withdrew in two attempts on September 3 from Rajouri and Surankot (Poonch). Two withdrawal of Rs20000 each was made on September 4 at Poonch city and at Pulwama at about 3pm in Kashmir," said Gulashan Ara.
She further said that ATM card which was replaced with her, after investigation were made by the bank, was found to be of Mohd Sayeed who was also duped by the cheats and it was blocked by the owner.Police has started investigation and was in a process to get the photos of the cheat from CCTV footage."A case under section 420 RPC will be registered against the unidentified persons" said V Gupta SHO. |
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