Big relief for SBI customers, living under constant fear of losing money
Staff Correspondent
Port Blair, Nov 01: In a major achievement, a team of Police Aberdeen CCS of A & N Police have arrested four persons from Jharkhand in the ATM Fraud cases.
Addressing a press conference today in the conference hall of SP(D), SP (CID) Mrs. Aslam Khan today said that around eight cases were registered at PS Central Crime Station (CCS) under sections 420 IPC and 66(D) IT (Amendment) Act, 2008 regarding cheating by unknown persons impersonating as General Manager, SBI bank and demanding confidential information from SBI account holders such as account number, debit card number, ATM PIN etc and used them to withdraw money from their accounts through unauthorized online transactions. Prima – facie it appears that the number of victims in A & N Islands could be in hundreds.
A team of CCS was constituted under the supervision of SP (CID) Mrs. Aslam Khan, IPS comprising of DySPs Mr. Nishant Gupta, Mr. Sandeep & Mr. Dhirendra Pratap Singh, Sub-Inspectors Mr. Usman Ali & Mr. PMK Kumar and PC Mr. Vikas Kumar Yadav to investigate the ATM fraud cases.
“Initial investigation revealed that this racket was being operated from Jharkhand and neighboring states. Upon this lead, a team led by DySP Mr. Dhirendra P. Singh, along with SI Mr. Usman Ali and Mr. PMK Kumar was sent to Jharkhand, where they stationed for over 10 days and the accused were arrested after series of raids with the help of local police and SP Mr. Deoghar and SP Mr. Jamtara,” the SP CID told media persons.
She said that the accused namely Mr. Shyam Sunder Mandal (19 yrs), Mr. Prakash Mandal (26 yrs), Mr. Manoj Kumar Mandal (20yrs) and Mr. Dinesh Kumar Mandal (21 yrs) were taken on transit remand and were brought to A & N Islands on 1st November 2013 morning. In total, 7 mobile phones, 9 sim cards, 4 SBI bank passbooks and 1 ATM card were recovered from the accused.
“People are advised not to share confidential information such as their Card number, ATM pin or any other confidential information regarding their account with anybody. In case, bank officials ask such information, they can visit the bank and clarify the same,” the SP CID added.
