Two arrested in Lucknow for bank fraud of 1 crore rupees

A case was filed at the cyber police station in Lucknow for an alleged fraud of Rs 5 lakh, on 6th of October. Police and the cyber-surveillance team after an investigation found out that the arrested accused and his aide used to transfer money of illiterate customers into his post-payment account and later transferred the money to his family members accounts.

Lucknow: The Lucknow police along with the Cyber team have arrested a Jharkhand post department employee and his aide for allegedly duping on the pretext of Customer care service providers and looting crores of rupees from people.

Atul Kumar Srivastava, a resident of Keshav Vihar of Kalyanpur in Gudamba filed a complaint of fraud of Rs 5 lakh in the cyber police station on 6th of October.

Police and the cyber-surveillance team after an investigation found out that it was Purushottam Kumar, an employee from the post department of Jharkhand who along with his aide Kundan Kumar Das used fraudulent ways to transfer customers money into his post-payment bank account, following which he transferred them to his family members accounts.

Purushottam has accepted that the fraud had a 50-50 partnership with his aide and other people involved in the fraud. Police said that a transaction of over 1 crore rupees has taken place in the main accused's account.

Cybercrime branch, Inspector in charge, Mohammad Muslim Khan informed that the accused used to transfer money of illiterate customers into his post-payment account and later transferred the money to his family members accounts.