Berasia police have booked a fraudster for duping a Bank of India customer at Berasia branch to the tune of Rs 15,500 on Monday.
Police said that the victim Arvind Yadav had gone to Bank of India branch of Berasia and was duped in the guise of helping him to count his money he had withdrawn.
The victim later found that the money was short of Rs 15, 500 and tried to find the person who helped in counting money and escaped with Rs 15, 500.
In his complaint, the victim stated that he had gone to withdraw Rs 40,000 from Bank of India Berasia branch and after the withdrawal when he was counting the money an unknown person approached him and asked to help in counting the cash and after counting he left the bank after which the victim found that Rs 15,500 was missing from the total withdrawn money.
The victim informed the bank staff and incident was reported by the bank to the police. The police have registered a case under section 420 of the IPC and have started further investigation.
During the initial investigation the staff and other customers were questioned. Police said that the footage of the CCTV camera would be investigated in the further investigation.
Victim was not able to provide details of the accused that he was alone or was with some accomplice and to reveal it CCTV footages of the nearby installed CCTV cameras would be investigated. The police have started investigation based on the description provided.