RAJKOT: Rajkot rural police arrested a person for allegedly duping various people of lakhs of rupees by opening multiple bank accounts using fraudulent documents. Accused Rajil Javiya, a native of Junagadh and resident of Rajkot, was operating nearly sixteen bank accounts in various public sector and private banks branches in Rajkot and Junagadh.
According to the police, Javiya was targeting the labors and senior citizens who were not well versed with the technology. He used to stand outside various Cash Deposit Machines (CDM) and tried to help those who fear to use the technology. Talking to media persons, Balram Meena, Rajkot superintendent of police said, "He used to deposit amount in his various bank accounts under the grab of helping people in depositing the amount in CDM." According to police, he created forged documents like PAN cards and election cards and based on it he used to open bank accounts.
He was working as an accountant with Rajdeep corporation of Shapar in outskirt of Rajkot. There he had allegedly duped Kishor Vaghani, owner of the company. He used Vaghani’s credit card to deposit Rs 5 lakh in his own account. He also presented the fraudulent purchased bills and transferred Rs 8 lakhs in his various accounts through RTGS from company’s bank account. The police has recovered twelve passbooks of various banks and eighteen debit and credit cards. The police asked banks to freeze the account with immediate effect.