Ghaziabad: Cyber Ghaziabad cells have arrested four people from Madhuban Bapudham in connection with bank fraud worth more than Rs 15 Lakh.
The police have recovered cash worth Rs 5,02,000, one third car, 10 cellphones, refrigerators, washing machines, grinders along with other household items, laptops, three aadhaar cards, 23 ATM cards, and five books checking different banks .
Accused of being arrested identified as Vipin Rathore, Bhanu Prakash, Trilok and Deepak.
The problem was revealed after Gaurav Gupta, Brother of Agra SGST Officer, has filed a complaint that in December last year that his SIM card was closed for a reason.
The same number was associated with his bank account and he had asked the bank to change his cellphone number but the bank had not changed it.
Meanwhile, Gupta has Darivi Land saved by Rs 15 Lakh in his account in April and an additional RS 20 Lakh should be saved to his account on July 15.
To check this, Gupta went to the bank to update Passbook and then he learned that from December 2020 to June 2021, the fraudsters had attracted Rs 15.9 lakh from his account.
This withdrawal is done through internet banking and from the ATM.
Nipurn Aggarwal, SP (City-1), said that after three months since the Gupta cellphone number was closed, the same number was issued for Vipin Rathore, one of the accused.
As soon as Rathore gets a SIM card activated, he receives a message from the Bank of Baroda which states that RS 12 has been deducted from the account – which is the account of the Gupta Bank – and the remaining balance number is around Rs 15.9 lakh.
Abhay Mishra, Circle Officer (Indirapuram) and is responsible for Cyber Cell said that after seeing the message, the defendant planned to attract all the money.
“Somehow, Rathore managed to get all the Gupta SIM card information.
He first changed the Internet Banking password through the cellphone number and applied to the new ATM card too.
The old sim card Gupta was also registered with his Aadhaar card.
Rathore somehow changed the card details Aadhaar Gupta too.
Allegations also received a message that the bank should send a new ATM card.
Rathore then went to the gupta address and took a new ATM card from the postman, “the officer added.
Mishra said that once the defendant received an ATM card, he began to withdraw cash from a different ATM.
All those accused have been ordered under 420 (cheating), 379 (theft), 467 (forgery), 468 (forgery for cheating purposes), 471 (using original fake documents), 411 (dishonest accept the stolen property) IPC and the relevant part of the action.
The telephone number that was linked to the bank did not change, the Ghaziabad man lost Rs 15L for fraud
