Pune: The Hadapsar police on Saturday registered an offence against unidentified suspect(s) for duping a petrol pump owner of Rs 7 lakh by fraudulent transactions, misusing a point of sale machine between February 11 and February 13, this year.Ajinjkya Tekawade, owner of the petrol pump, has lodged an FIR with the Hadapsar police. Assistant inspector S D Chavan said, a probe revealed that while receiving the payment through debit or credit cards from the customers, the suspect(s), who are employees of the petrol pump, used to swipe it on the POS machine. “After getting the first slip, they would cancel the transaction,” Chavan said.
Though the transaction was cancelled, the bill amount was debited from the customer’s account, but never transferred to the petrol pump’s account.
The fraud came to light when the Rs 7 lakh difference was traced during the audit. The amount was transferred to an account in a public sector bank.