A retired school headmaster in the district reportedly lost about Rs 1.23 lakh from his bank account after giving details of his ATM and Aadhar card to a caller on his cellphone, who identified himself as an official of the State Bank of India. He filed a FIR at the Rajgangpur police station. On Monday, one accused was arrested from Ranchi. The mastermind of is still at large.
The victim identified as Nabin Chandra Patel, after his retirement as Headmaster at Rajgangpur received a phone call on July 22. The caller identified himself as an official from the SBI and managed to get information on his ATM number, password and Aadhar card number over phone. later, Patel came to know that he lost Rs 1.23 lakh from his bank account. He lodged a FIR in Rajgangpur police station on July 24. Rajgangpur police after registering a case, investigated the case. While checking the statement of bank account of Patel, police noticed that the accused had reportedly done shopping from renowned company by using ATM number and password of Patel. The accused had reportedly first transferred money to Delhi based mobikwik company and later Rs 5,000 had been transferred to the account of one Prakash Kumar of Jharkhand.
As per the direction of Sundargarh SP Pinaj Mishra, a team of police from Rajgangpur and Sundargarh went to Jharkhand and arrested Prakash Kumar at Ranchi on Monday and seized 2 mobiles, 4 passbooks and Rs 3,000 from him. Police brought Prakash Kumar and forwarded him to court. After getting information from him bout the mastermind of this cheating, when police along with Jharkhand police raided the residence of the mastermind in Jharkhand, he had absconded and police seized Rs 71,000 from his house.