A businessman of Sundargarh was allegedly cheated of Rs 4.25 lakh by an unknown person. The victim lodged a complaint with the police and an investigation is on.
Rajesh Kumar Patel, owner of a fly ash factory and resident of RRIT colony under Town police station in Sundargarh, complained before police that he had on March 1 received a call in his mobile from an unknown number.
The caller had identified him as Amit and a senior officer of the HDFC bank. He told that he provides loan at low rate of interest.
The caller then had told Rajesh to give him a cheque of Rs1,000 in the name of HDFC bank to open a CC account, so that the loan amount will be later credited in his HDFC account.
Rajesh shown his interest after the caller told him to send his subordinate to collect cheque of Rs 1,000 from him.
Accordingly, a youth had reached near Rajesh and told to give him the cheque. Before collecting cheque from Rajesh, the youth allegedly told Rajesh that he should write in black pen on his cheque and had given Rajesh black pen to write cheque.
Rajesh after writing in black pen on cheque had handed over a cheque of Rs 1,000 in the name of HDFC bank from his ICICI bank cheque book and had also returned the black refill pen. Thereafter, Rajesh waited for the call of Amit.
On March 25, Rajesh went to ICICI bank to update his passbook and after getting the updated passbook, he was shocked to see that Rs 4,25,000 had been debited from his account.
The police suspect that after taking the cheque from Rajesh, the cheater might have erased the writing with some chemical and might have again written the figure and other details on it to take the amount from his account.