KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, June 26: Over five years after a case of siphoning of bank balance was registered, the West Singhbhum police succeeded to solve the case by arresting two cyber criminals on Monday.
Those arrested were identified as Pradeep Mondal and Mohammed Azmal Ansari, both residents of Jamtara and Deoghar districts respectively.
According to police, a woman Pinki Honhaga had in September 2017 lodged an FIR with the Chaibasa Mufassil thana alleging unknown criminals to have siphoned off Rs 99,999 from her account with the Punjab National Bank fraudulently.
Unidentified criminals had called on the victim’s cellphone asking for the secret pincode of her ATM beside the bank’s account number. Pinki had revealed both the secret pincode and her account number as the caller had claims to be the officials of the said bank.
But a day after, Pinki found Rs 99,999 was debited without even her knowledge. Later, realising that she was duped by the cyber criminals, she had lodged the FIR.
During this period, the police investigated the case and by means of the district police’s technical cell, the police succeeded to unravel the case.
The police established that the cyber fraud was committed by Pradeep Mondal, Azmal Ansari and one Tausif Ansari.
As all the three were absconding, the police kept on a tab on them and finally succeeded to arrest Azmal Ansari and Pradeep Mondal from their houses in Deoghar and Jamtara respectively.
Tausif Ansari who is a resident of Hazaribagh and is still absconding.
