Ranchi Police has taken major action and arrested two cyber criminals in the cyber fraud case of Rs 3.26 lakh illegally withdrawn from the bank accounts of 81-year-old Chunda Purti.
Rs 2,57,200 cash, three mobile phones, three cheque books and four passbooks have been recovered from the arrested accused.
According to the police, the victim Chunda Purti, address - HEC Colony, Sector 1, Dhurva had lodged a complaint at Cyber Police Station Ranchi on April 25. He told that between April 5 and April 11, a total of Rs 3,26,278 has been illegally withdrawn from his two bank accounts.
Investigation revealed that this amount was withdrawn from the Customer Service Center (CSP) located in his native village Kuchibeda (District West Singhbhum), which was operated by a person named Prashant Khilar. Accused Prashant Khilar, along with his brother Rupesh Khilar, took pictures of the plaintiff's ATM card and got a SIM issued in the name of another person by porting the registered mobile number. After this, they created a UPI account of the plaintiff using that SIM in their mobile phone and withdrew money from their accounts.
On the instructions of Deputy Inspector General of Police-cum-Senior Superintendent of Police Ranchi, a raid team was formed under the leadership of Cyber DSP and Inspector Manisha Kumari. After the raid, both the brothers - Prashant Khilar and Rupesh Khilar (both father Bagun Khilar, resident - Udia Tola, Village Kotgarh, Police Station Noamundi, District West Singhbhum) - were arrested.
During interrogation, both the accused have confessed to the crime. Apart from the recovered amount, they had transferred the remaining amount to the accounts of their CSP customers and acquaintances.