The Brahmapur police on Saturday arrested an engineering student for fraudulently transferring money from the bank accounts of a woman. The arrestee was identified as Sunil Tripathy, a resident of Arabinda Nagar under the Baidyanathpur police limits. The police seized three mobile phones and an ATM card and recovered two ATM cards and cash of Rs 60,000 of the victim woman.
Sources said the victim on December 15, 2018 had lodged an FIR in the Brahmapur Town police station alleging illegal withdrawal of money from her two bank accounts. Later during investigation, police found that Tripathy, with the help of a relative of the woman, had fraudulently obtained her ATM card details and later transferred nearly Rs 68,000 to his own Paytm wallet.