Kolkata: The cyber-cell of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Wednesday arrested two fraudsters from Jharkhand on charges of siphoning money from the bank account of a nurse, who is a resident of Sonarpur.
"We have arrested Jugal Mahato and Suresh Mondal, both from Narayanpur under Jamtara police station area on charges of cheating a nurse Suparna Bag to the tune of more than Rs 1,25,000," Nishat Parvez, DIG, CID (operations) said. The victim had her account at a branch of a nationalised branch in Sonarpur. According to a senior CID official, Mahato had made a phone call to the victim lady claiming himself to be the bank manager of the bank in which she had an account. He took the details of her ATM card telling her that he would need the details to connect it with her Aadhar details. He siphoned the money from her account through Paytm. The CID initiated a case on the basis of a complaint at Sonarpur police station on June 23 and tracked the two at Jamtara in Jharkhand.
The sleuths have also managed to refund Rs 50,000 to the account of the victim by by Paytm. "There is an organised gang from Jamtara in Jharkhand who are involved in this fraud racket. This is the first breakthrough in unearthing this gang. Raids are on to arrest other accused persons as we have found out that this gang has been committing similar activities and had duped more people in the state," a senior CID official said.