3 Arrested For Bank Fraud

Hyderabad: The Cyber Crime police of Central Crime Station Hyderabad arrested three persons for assisting interstate fraudsters indulging in cheating people posing as bank officials, collecting bank details and withdrawing cash from their accounts.

The arrested persons were identified as Khirodhar Mandal(29) and Jahangir Ansari(34) of Jharkhand, Lakshmi Narayan Bauri(32) of West Burdhaman, West Bengal.

According to the police, three persons K.Kishore Bhati from Begum Bazar, Madhusudhan Rao from Jubilee Hills and A. Muralidhar from Kharkhana had lodged three separate complaints stating they received calls from unknown persons posing as bank officials and asking for debit/credit card details and OTP numbers. More than Rs.1 lakh was withdrawn from each of their accounts then.

During investigation, based on the information from banks and e-commerce wallets, a police team from the Cyber Crime Cell went to Jharkhand and West Bengal and nabbed the suspects. They were brought to the city on a Prisoner Transit Warrant and produced before court, which further remanded them in judicial custody.

“These suspects along with their associates in Jharkhand and West Bengal assist inter-state fraudsters who cheat people by obtaining bank details and thereafter withdraw money. They provide their bank accounts for transactions on a commission basis,” CCS police said.

Police seized account pass books and mobile phones used for the offence.