In a major breakthrough police on Wednesday arrested three persons, including a 30-year-old woman for allegedly duping a city-based industrialist of Rs49.08 lakh by resorting to deceitful way.
Police have nabbed Ankit Kashyap, Rakesh Kumar, and Nilam Kumari. Two others, Navin Kumar Shao and Amit Kumar Srivastava who were also involved in the racket are on run.
While arresting those accused the police recovered Rs 2 lakh from the possession of Ankit who had got the money for assisting Amit who is allegedly the mastermind of the act.
Senior superintendent of police, Anoop T Mathew said that the accused had on May 23 transferred Rs 49.08 lakh from the city-based industrialist Pavan Kumar Poddar's account with the Sakchi branch of Bank of Baroda to a forged account with the Bank of India's Sakchi branch by means of RTGS.
" Poddar, who is a resident of Circuit House Area and owns a company, Hari Om Splinter Pvt ltd, came to know about the fraud he lodged an FIR with the Sakchi police station in connection to it late in the Tuesday night. Soon afterward we set up a team of police officials and came into action and today arrested three of the accused from their houses in Adityapur," said Mathew.
The senior SP said that after shifting Poddar's money to Bank of India on Monday, the accused had withdrawn Rs 9.08 lakh yesterday.
"We have today freezed the forged account having a balance of Rs 40 lakh and recovered Rs 2 lakh from the possession of Ankit in whose name Amit had opened a forged account with the Bank of India. The remaining Rs7.08 lakh is with Amit who is a resident of Mango and works in another city-based company AK Enterprises where the accused woman Nilam Kumari would also work," said the senior police officer.
Mathew further said that Navin Kumar Shao who worked as the accountant with Poddar's company had tipped off Amit about the bank balance in the name of Poddar in Bank of Baroda and had managed to obtain a cheque from the victim for getting the money transferred to Bank of India.
He pointed out that they would also investigate into the role of a private telecom company (Airtel) in the episode as the victim has not got any alert massage on his mobile when the money was transferred from his account to a forged account with the Bank of India, adding that some bank
employees of both the Bank of India and Bank of Baroda are also under the scanner of the police investigation.