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Film firm owner uses 'fake' cheque to withdraw Rs1.90 crore, held

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The owner of a film production firm and his aide have been arrested for allegedly trying to withdraw Rs1.90 crore against a 'fake' cheque. The accused – proprietor of Aiman Picture Company Shahjama Jabbar Ansari, 40, and Amar Divedi – deposited the cheque in their account with the Versova branch of Oriental Bank of Commerce on Friday.

The cheque had been issued from the account of a businessman who holds an account with the same bank's Lucknow branch. It was the make of the cheque, the quality of its paper, that raised the suspicion of a bank official during internal processing.

A police official said that the touch and feel of the paper quality of this cheque was different and far from that of a genuine cheque leaf. When the bank official asked Ansari about the nature of the business transaction for which the cheque had been issued, he said that he had taken up a big project with the Lucknow-based businessman.

As a corroborative measure, the official called up the bank's Lucknow branch and contacted the account holder to confirm if the financial instrument had been issued by this person. When the businessman denied any knowledge of such a cheque, the bank authorities contacted the police.

They asked Ansari to come to the bank's Versova branch. They also told him that it is mandatory for a customer to intimated the bank in advance if the amount to be withdrawn is huge.
In the meantime, the bank manager, Jagdish Joshi, had registered a complaint against Ansari and Divedi at Versova police station, said a police officer .

Senior inspector HR Parmale said that they arrested the two men when they came to the bank to withdraw the money. "They have been booked for cheating and forgery under the Indian Penal Code," said Parmale.

The police are looking into the antecedents of Ansari, a Goregaon resident and Divedi who is from Nalasopara.

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