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In a major breakthrough under the leadership of Sh. Ketan Bansal, IPS, SP-Cyber, UT, Chandigarh, under close guidanceof Sh. A Venkatesh, DSP/Cyber Crime& IT UT, Chandigarh and supervision of Inspector Sh. Ranjit SinghSHO Police Station-Cyber Crime, Sec.17, Chandigarh, one (1) accused has been arrested inCase FIR No. 128 dated 18.12.2023 U/S 419, 420, 120B IPC PS Cyber Crime, Sector 17 UT, Chandigarh in which the accused fraudulently made alleged transactions of amounting Rs. 3,65,900/- by changing victim’s SIM card and taking unauthorized access of his PNB Net Banking.
Police said, the present case has been registered on the complaint of Sh. Ram Dhani S/o Shitu R/o Village Maloya Chandigarh in which he allegedly reported that he is a senior citizen and retired from PWD department Chandigarh. He has a Punjab National Bank Account in which he received his retirement fund. But his retirement pension has not come into effect yet. For this he requested to his well-known Grocery shopkeeper and his son at Maloya from where he used to purchase grocery items. He does know their names.
(SUBHEAD)The shopkeeper’s son told him that he would help him to start his retirement pension and asked him for papers, Bank passbook and mobile phone, which was handed over to him. Further he told him that he would have to come, when he called, he would get it done. After some time, he returned his bank passbook and mobile phone. Next day, he was found that his mobile SIM number was not working due to which he issued a duplicate SIM card of above number. After few days, he needed of money and went to Punjab National Bank where he has come to know that someone has made fraudulent transaction of Rs. 3,65,900/-.
During investigation, a team was constituted headed by SI Gurmeet Singh, Ct. Vinod Kumar, Const. Pardeep Kumar & Ct Amit Kumar. Furtheron the basis of technical support and secret information, on 18.12.2023, a raid was conducted at Maloya Chandigarh from where arrest of accused Rakesh Yadav S/o Lal Bahadur Yadav R/o #22 Village Maloya Chandigarh (House-cum-Grocery Shop) have been made from Maloya Chandigarh in the above case.
