A 26-year-old youth was nabbed by Hanumanganj police for duping a trader to the tune of Rs 3.4 lakh; accused used stolen cheque leaves to withdraw and transfer money from the victim’s bank account with the help of his accomplices said police.
According to the police the victim Ashok Chandwani was duped to the tune of Rs 3.4 lakh using six cheque leaves of HDFC bank by his former employee Santosh Ahirwar.
After the victim found that money has been withdrawn from his account he immediately requested for clearance of the remaining number of cheque leaves of the same series but the accused was aware of the series of the other cheque book and forged the cheque number and withdrew and transferred a total of Rs 3.4 lakh from the bank account of accused. Victim lodged a complaint with the police and in the investigation accused was nabbed.
In the initial investigation accused confessed that bank account opened using fake documents were used to deposit and withdraw the money. The accused used the cheque leaves stolen in the month of February.
The investigating officer JP Tripathi said that the victim owns a shop in Suraj Nagar where the accused used to work and left the job in the month of March.
The accused stole cheque leaves while he used to work at the victim’s shop in the month of February and March.
Search for the three accomplices Pramod, Deepak and Suresh has been started.
The nabbed accused has been sent under four days of police custody.
After the preliminary investigation the police have registered a case under section 381, 420, 467, 466, 471, 120 B and 34 of the IPC and have started further investigation.