Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, May 30: The police has arrested a cheat and recovered an amount withdrawn fraudulently by him from the ATM of the complainant in Rajouri district.
A police official said that on May 26, 2022, a written complaint was lodged at Police Station Kalakote by one Surinder Singh, son of Brij Lal, a resident of village Behragoa, Kalakote, alleging that some unknown person has swapped his ATM card fraudulently and withdrawn Rs 1,95,500 from his ATM card and cheated him when he had went to Kalakote market to withdraw money.
On the receipt of this complaint, a case FIR No. 31/2022 U/S 420 IPC was registered at Kalakote police Station. The official said sensing the gravity of crime and large amount of money involved, on the directions of SSP Rajouri a special police team was constituted by Additional SP Nowshera, Amit Verma to crack the case.
Police team headed by SHO Kalakote, Deepak Pathania and assisted by PSI Anis Choudhary, ASI Bashir Hussain under the supervision of SDPO Nowshera Tousif Reshu during the course of investigation, rounded up several suspects. Later, one person namely Intekhab Husssain, son of Fazal Husain, resident of village Dodasan Bala, Thanamandi was zeroed in.
He was put under sustained questioning during which he confessed his crime and on the basis of his disclosure, Rs 1 lakh has been recovered while more recovery is likely to be affected.
Police added that on the basis of initial investigation, it has come to notice that accused used to act very smartly and had withdrawn money from ATMs of different banks from Kalakote, Rajouri, Sunderbani, Jammu and Bhatadhurian, Poonch in a span of around one month only to dodge police.
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