Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, July 3: Police today arrested a notorious high-tech ATM cheater and recovered around Rs 2.5 lakh, which he had fraudulently withdrawn from the account of a person by exchanging the ATM card of the latter.
A police spokesman said that, on July 1, 2014, Prithvi Raj, son of Shiv Ram of Dhangri lodged a complaint with police station Rajouri that he visited ATM of SBI Bank at Jawahar Nagar on May 22, for withdrawal of Rs 2,000 but due to lack of knowledge, he sought the help of a person present in the ATM cabin.
The complainant further stated that during the process of withdrawing the money, the accused person present in the ATM cabin exchanged his ATM card with his own card and later fraudulently withdrawn Rs 2.35 lakh from his account.
Accordingly, a case under FIR number 338/14 under Section 420 and 380 of RPC was registered at police station Rajouri and investigation started.
During the course of investigation, police on the basis of available information and CCTV footage succeeded in arresting the accused who has been identified as Mohammad Rafiq, son of Mohammad Shafi of Rehan, tehsil Koteranka, district Rajouri.
On the disclosure of accused, police recovered the stolen amount of Rs 2.35 lakh.
SP Rajouri Mubassir Latifi said that police was looking for this notorious cheat since long as number of such cases have been reported in the past also.
He said that this notorious cheat who happens to be a Diploma Engineer presently working in Rajouri, would be interrogated thoroughly to find out whether he was deceiving the public alone or he is part of any bigger organized group.
Police team headed by SHO Yash Jamwal made the arrest under the overall supervision of SP Rajouri Mubassir Latifi.
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