Rs 15.5 lakh siphoned off: Cyber cell nabs Delhiite

The cyber crime cell of city crime branch has arrested a Delhi resident, Abhijeet Sharma, for alleged involvement in siphoning of lakhs of rupees from the bank account of a Sion businessman. The businessman's firm lost Rs 15.58 lakh from its account last year.

Sharma stays in Patel Nagar area of Delhi. He has been booked on charges of cheating under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act.

According to the police, complainant (name withheld), runs a consultancy firm and has his company's account in a private bank having a branch in Sion. On July 30 last year, Rs 13 lakh was siphoned off from the victim's account through 11 transactions. The next day, Rs 2.58 lakh was siphoned off through two transactions. After having been alerted by the bank about the transactions, the victim lodged a complaint with Sion police in October.

"We suspect the money was transferred through net-banking using bogus password. The victim never made these transactions. The money withdrawn was deposited in 10 different bank accounts and withdrawn from different places," said a crime branch officer.

An inquiry by the bank revealed that in two of the 11 transactions made on July 30, Rs 3.50 lakh was deposited in the bank account of Uttar Pradesh resident Gaurav Rawat.

"Rawat's statement revealed that his debit card was being used by Abhijeet Sharma. A police team went to Delhi and apprehended Sharma, who has earlier been arrested by the Delhi police's EOW in a similar cheating and forgery case," the officer said.