Five booked for opening bank account using fake ID proof

LUDHIANA: The division number 8 police have registered a fraud case against five persons for allegedly opening a bank account with fake ID proof to make illegal transactions. The matter came to light when the person, whose voter ID card was used to open the account, got a notice from the income tax department.
In his complaint, ex-serviceman from Hoshiarpur Jagdish Sachdeva, 75, claimed that his son Amit Sachdeva worked with HDFC Bank on Mall road Ludhiana in 2009. The same year, someone using his voter ID card opened a fake account in the same branch but used KYC (know your customer) ID of another person named Amit. Meanwhile, his son Amit went abroad and returned in 2011.
Then against in 2016, he went abroad where he is settled at present. In his absence, Rs 32.36 lakh were credited in that account and was later withdrawn on different dates. In 2016, they got a notice from income tax department.
Thereafter, Sachdeva lodged a complaint with the Ludhiana police, alleging role of some bank employee behind the crime.
He alleged, “Voter ID card of my son was in the drawer of his table in the bank which was used to open the account. I also suspect that they have opened the account to make illegal payments.”
Inspector Amit Thakur, SHO, division number 8 police station, said a case has been registered after inquiry against Deepika Uppal, Gurpreet Singh, Ajay Singhaniya, Sipali Dutta, Nitika Maheshwari and Amit under Sections 420 (Cheating), 465 (punishment for forgery), 467 (forgery of valuable security or will etc), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document), 120-b (criminal conspiracy) of IPC.