Mumbai: Rs2.5 lakh withdrawn from teacher’s account fraudently

MUMBAI: A school teacher from Jogeshwari (W) lost Rs 2.5 lakh in 30 transactions from her savings bank account between May 12-20. The money was withdrawn from Rehana Shaikh’s (47) account when her ATM card was with her.
Shaikh did not receive a single transaction alert from Union Bank of India. Oshiwara police said the bank told her to lodge a complaint but was unable to give the reason for not receiving alerts which she had registered for.
Shaikh learnt the money had gone when she visited the bank’s ATM on May 21. “Shaikh lodged a complaint. We have sought details of the 30 fraudulent transactions from the bank. It is suspected her card details were used to make a clone, which was used. We are getting CCTV footage of the ATMs from where the money was withdrawn,” said an officer of Oshiwara police station.
The money was the account to which her salary is credited every month. Shaikh told TOI that she had to check with her brother before talking about the fraud. In the complaint, she said, “When I visited the bank and told them to update my passbook, I found 30 fraudulent transactions carried out. The bank was unable to give a proper answer and told me to lodge a police complaint after blocking my card. The bank said someone had used my card to withdraw money fraudulently.”
A case was filed under IPC sections 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating) and under IT Act section 66 (D) (impersonation) against an unidentified person.