Two persons, including a peon of a bank, were arrested and forwarded to court on Sunday evening by the Kutra police allegedly for withdrawing Rs 64,000 from bank account of two persons by making duplicate passbooks of the two account holders.
According to sources, one Daniel Khalko, a resident under Kutra police station, has savings account in Canara bank at Gamardih in Kutra.
Similarly, one Pyari Lakra, a resident under Kutra police station, has account in same bank. On November 26, Khalko lodged complaint before the Branch Manager of bank that on November 2, and 3, Rs 12,000 each; and on November 13, Rs 13,000 were withdrawn from his account without his knowledge. Similarly Lakra complained that on November 15, Rs12,000 and on November 16, Rs 15,000 were withdrawn from his account fraudulently.
When the Branch Manager verified the passbooks of the victims, he could know that they had not withdrawn money from their account but knew that total Rs 37,000 was withdrawn from Khalko’s account and total Rs 27,000 from Lakra’s account.
The Branch Manager could know that their amount was withdrawn by some other persons and suspected fraud in it. Canara bank, Gamardih branch, reportedly returned Rs 37,000 to Khalko and Rs 27,000 to Lakra.
Later, the bank lodged a complaint in Kutra police station on November 27 about the fraudulent transactions.
The police arrested a person who is involved in the fraud, while he had again come to the bank to withdraw money from the duo victims’ accounts.
He was identified as Manoj Singh. Manoj revealed that one Ramesh Kishan, who works as a peon in Canara Bank, Rajgangpur , is the mastermind behind the fraud. Police arrested Kishan on Sunday.