S’garh bizman duped of Rs 4.25 lakh

A businessman of Sundargarh was allegedly cheated of Rs 4.25 lakh by an unknown person. The victim lodged a complaint with the police and an investigation is on.

Rajesh  Kumar  Patel, owner of a fly ash factory and resident of RRIT colony  under  Town  police  station  in Sundargarh, complained before police that he had on March 1 received a call  in  his  mobile  from  an  unknown  number. 

The caller had identified him as Amit and a senior officer of the HDFC   bank.  He told that he provides loan at low rate of interest. 

The  caller  then had told Rajesh to give  him  a  cheque  of  Rs1,000  in  the  name of  HDFC  bank  to  open   a  CC  account,  so  that  the  loan  amount  will be  later  credited  in  his  HDFC  account.

Rajesh  shown  his  interest after the  caller told  him to send  his subordinate  to  collect  cheque  of  Rs 1,000  from  him.

Accordingly, a youth had reached near Rajesh and told to give him the cheque. Before  collecting  cheque  from  Rajesh,  the youth allegedly told Rajesh  that he should write in black pen on his cheque and had  given  Rajesh  black  pen to write cheque.

Rajesh after writing  in  black  pen  on  cheque had handed  over  a  cheque  of Rs 1,000 in  the  name  of HDFC  bank  from his  ICICI  bank  cheque book  and  had  also returned  the  black  refill  pen.   Thereafter, Rajesh  waited  for the  call  of  Amit.

On March  25,  Rajesh  went to  ICICI  bank  to  update  his  passbook and  after  getting  the updated  passbook,  he  was  shocked  to see  that  Rs 4,25,000 had been debited from his account.

The police suspect that after  taking  the  cheque  from  Rajesh,  the  cheater  might  have erased  the  writing  with  some  chemical   and  might  have again written the  figure  and  other  details  on  it to  take  the amount  from  his  account.