An accused was overpowered by the victim, for allegedly exchanging the ATM card of the victim and withdrew Rs 10,000 from his account, the police said on Friday.
The arrested accused was identified as Sharfuddin of Palwal, while his accomplices who fled the spot were identified as Parvez and Toufiq.
According to the police, the victim Raj Kumar, stated in his police complaint that on Thursday around 12.00 O'clock he had visited an ATM booth located on the Mehrauli-Gurugram Road near Sukhrali village in Gurugram and withdrew Rs 500 from his account.
"During this a youth came inside the ATM kiosk and asked him to insert the ATM card and then press the cancel button. The victim replied that he had already pressed the cancel button. Thereafter, two more youths came inside the ATM in turn and again asked him if there was a scheme and insisted him to press the cancel button after inserting his PIN number on the ATM machine," the victim told the police.
Soon after one of the accused took the victim's card and handed it over to the victim and told him that it had been cancelled and left the spot.
The victim felt something fishy and approached his bank where the bank employee informed him that it was not his card and in between the victim received Rs 10,000 withdrawal message.
"The bank employee informed the victim that the money was withdrawn from Sector-17A market. The victim immediately reached the Sector-17A market where the accused trio while seeing the victim had tried to flee the spot but one of the accused overpowered the victim with the help of passersby," the victim told the police.
Later the nabbed accused disclosed his accomplices name and confessed that they had withdrawn Rs 10,000 from the victims account from an ATM installed at Sector-17A market.
Thereafter the accused returned Rs 20,000 in the victim’s relative account and when the victim asked him why he transferred Rs 20,000 instead of Rs 10,000 in his account the culprit could not give satisfactory answer and he was handed over to the police.
"The case was registered under relevant sections of the IPC at Sadar police station. Further probe is on to get information about the absconding culprits, said Subhash Boken, spokesperson of the Gurugram police.