Indore (Madhya Pradesh): A man was duped of Rs 2.45 lakh by a conman through AnyDesk app on the pretext of transferring his bank account’s branch. According to the police, one Ashok Kumar Gupta, a resident of Shree Yantra Nagar, lodged a complaint stating that he called to transfer his HDFC bank account from Race Course branch to Khandwa Road Rani Bagh branch. They told him that he will get a call from his office team.
Later, he received a call from an unknown number and the caller made him download AnyDesk app, customer support -s36-1 app on his mobile for account transfer. This process took him two days. Meanwhile, Rs 2 lakh were withdrawn from his account on January 19 and Rs 45 thousand were withdrawn on January 20. Later, he came to know that the caller had duped him of Rs. 2 lakh 45 thousand. The police registered a case against the mobile holder of the number under sections 318(4) of BNS and began a probe.
Three from Maha booked for cheating city resident
Three individuals from Maharashtra were booked for defrauding a city’s man by making forged documents, an official said on Saturday. According to the police, one Manish Patil of Vigyan Nagar lodged a complaint stating that he had applied for a tender for Maharashtra Rail Metro Project and Women’s child development project in Bihar through his firm and he gave Prashant Sindhe of Pune, Amraja Raje Nimbalkar of Pune and Rakesh Waghal of Solapur the power of attorney of the tender.
The accused cheated the applicant by creating a forged document and using it as original. As a result, the Women and Child Development Department has stopped the tender provided to the applicant and the bills of the applicant have been stopped, due to which the applicant’s institution has suffered loss and the accused have obtained wrongful gain. The police registered a case against the accused under sections 318(3), 3(5) of BNS and further investigation is underway.
Man duped of Rs 20K on pretext of selling washing machine
A man was duped of Rs 20K on the pretext of selling his washing machine on OLX website, an official said on Saturday. Additional DCP Alok Kumar Sharma said that one Ritesh Bhadoriya lodged a complaint stating that he had uploaded an advertisement to sell his washing machine on OLX website. Later, he received a call from an unknown number and the caller was interested in buying the item. The accused sent a QR code on his WhatsApp number and asked him to fill his UPI. The victim was duped of Rs 20K in two different transactions, one from his account and other from his wife’s account.
Three from Maha booked for defrauding city resident
Three individuals from Maharashtra were booked for defrauding a resident of the city by making forged documents, an official said on Saturday. According to the police, one Manish Patil of Vigyan Nagar lodged a complaint stating that he had applied for a tender for Maharashtra Rail Metro Project and Women’s Sindhe of Pune, Amraja Rajenimbalkar of Pune and Rakesh Waghal of Solapur the power of attorney of the tender. The accused cheated the applicant by creating a forged document and using it as original.
