DJ Venkatesh
Port Blair, Sept 19: In yet another case of Cyber Fraud, one more Islander has been cheated by cyber criminals. Mr. Sugata Barui S/o Late Subhash Barui, R/o Sita Nagar who is doing business at Siluguri, presently on a home visit to Diglipur is the victim this time.
He is having an Axis bank account No. being 911010055918796 at Diglipur Branch. To his utter surprise on 17th Sep 2013 when he went to withdraw money from ATM, found that his balance is insufficient. Immediately he went to AXIS bank Diglipur branch and got the bank statements where he found that on 16th and 17th September, an amount of Rs. 21,224.52 and Rs. 14,048.37, total amount Rs. 35,272.89, have been withdrawn from his account. It must be noted that he never disclosed nor shared the information of his bank details to anybody as he is a IT graduate and having knowledge of Cyber Crimes.
Call it a bad luck, due to poor BSNL network the Mr. Sugata Barui did not even get SMS alert of money transaction from his account.
When he went to Police Station Diglipur to lodge an FIR, the Police officers on duty reportedly refused to lodge FIR but received a written complaint. The bank officials said they are not sure of the amount disappearance and did not assure him to return the money.
The Cyber Cell of A & N police must conduct a detailed inquiry in all these incidents of cyber crimes. As Islanders are having sleepless nights the Police Department must form a special team to nab these cyber criminals.
This is bad . I think andaman and nicobar administration should look into this issue, at least they should check to the core.