A 24-year-old man has been arrested by the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (CCIC) of the Mumbai Crime Branch, for allegedly being part of a gang involved in siphoning off money from bank accounts.
The youth has been identified as Ashok Kumar Ram Chabbila Singh, a resident of Goregaon. Singh, who was arrested on Tuesday, has been remanded in police custody till July 26.
Police said he was arrested after they received a complaint from a woman from whose account Rs2 lakh was illegally transferred.
According to the police, the complainant, a woman, works in a private firm in Malad and has a salary account with the Malad branch of a private bank since February 2007. “She had taken netbanking facility and used it to make transactions through internet,” said a police officer.
The officer said that on February 19 this year, the victim received a call from her bank, stating that on February 18, 10 transactions involving Rs2 lakh were carried out in the account and the amount was deposited in various bank accounts.
Since the victim had not executed the transactions, she registered a complaint with the police in this regard.
“During the investigations, it was learnt that one of the accounts to which the money was transferred belonged to Singh. After that, we arrested him. The victim said that on February 18, she had lost her mobile phone SIM card. We suspect that there might have been some information about her bank details in the SIM card, which was misused by the people involved in this racket,” said another police officer.
The police said they were interrogating Singh to get more details about his accomplices. “Mostly in such cases, those who lend their bank accounts are given commission by the racketeers. In this case, Rs50,000 was deposited in Singh’s account, of which Rs25,000 has been used by him,” the officer said.
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