Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 13: Akhnoor Police arrested a fraudster and recovered entire amount of Rs 7 lakhs from his possession.
As per police sources, on August 21 this year, a written complaint was lodged by a man namely Puran Chand, son of Paras Ram of Village Kapai Di Ban with Police Station Akhnoor alleging that Rs 7 lakhs has been transferred from his SBI Akhnoor account to some unknown bank accounts fraudulently by forging his signatures.
Acting over the complaint, a case FIR Number 211/2021 under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B IPC was registered at Police Station Akhnoor and the investigation of the case started.
To work out the case, a team from Police Station Akhnoor led by SHO Inspector Hilal Azhar and assisted by PSI Baljeet Singh was constituted under the supervision of SDPO Akhnoor.
During the course of investigation, account statements of the complainant was obtained and after scrutiny it was found that an amount of Rs 7 lakhs has been transferred from his accounts to some other accounts of Hyderabad and thereafter the amount has been further transferred to some other accounts.
The money trail of transferred amount was followed and all the involved accounts were got freezed. The original cheques through which the said amount has been transferred were also seized besides the CCTV footage of SBI Akhnoor was also obtained.
During further course of investigation and one person namely Suresh Kumar, son of Ram Krishan of Village Kapai Da Ban Akhnoor Jammu was picked up and interrogated thoroughly. During sustained interrogation, the said person accepted that he had stolen the cheques from the custody of complainant and thereafter by forging complainant’s signatures transferred an amount of Rs 7 lakhs to other account holders known to him. The entire amount of Rs 7 lakhs has been recovered and the accused has been arrested in the instant case.
Further investigation is going on and role of other associated persons is being ascertained.
The arrest and seizure was made under the guidance of SP Rural Sanjay Sharma.
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