Mumbai: Additional Metropolitan Magistrate from Kurla is the latest victim of skimming rackets, fraud that involves making duplicate debit cards.
Magistrate lost 1.2 lakh Rs.
The police have registered firs against unknown people because of deceiving judges.
Cyber criminal cells are carrying out parallel investigations.
Cyber fraudsters have attracted a small number of judge accounts for nine months but he realized it recently when he went to the bank and renewed his savings savings book.
The police said that the judge noticed that his account lacked around Rs 1 Lakh and continued to maintain the bank statement carefully.
“He noted that a small number of rs 5,000 to rs 10,000 has been withdrawn every month from many ATMs since January 2021,” said an officer.