Rs 22 lakh siphoned off by bank peon using ATM card of customer in Junagadh

RAJKOT: The Special Operation Group (SOG) of Junagadh police arrested six persons in the connection of bank fraud and for stealing money here.



A bank peon with his friends have allegedly steal an ATM card of a customer from the office and withdraw the amount of Rs 22.47 lakh in six to seven months in Junagadh district .

The accused have been identified as Mahesh Vaghela, Yusuf Dal, Anvar Paleja, Basir Paleja, Prakash Solanki and Hasmukh Rathod while Hanif Juma is yet to be arrested in this offence.

According to police complain, Mansukh Chovatia, is a farmer in Dhorjai town, had opened an account with Central Band Of India’s Junagadh branch a few years ago. But when he opened the account, the option for the ATM card was shown as issued in the form. Calling on a customer care, bank found that the ATM was not registered on the complainant Mansukh Chovatia mobile number.

“He didn’t went to the ATM to withdraw the money but he contacted his friends and some other persons who withdrew the money on his behalf so he never shown in CCTV installed inside the ATMs,” a police officer said.

He added, “There was a limit of withdrawal of Rs 40,000 per day, so these people had used this card at various places to withdraw the money and they had withdrawn Rs 22.47 lakh in the period of less than one year. The mobile number of the customer was not registered with bank so the customer never got the SMS from the bank when the amount was withdrawn during 2016-17.