PUNE: A real estate developer (55) has registered a complaint with the Bharati Vidyapeeth police stating that some person/s withdrew over Rs1.29 lakh from his bank account by using a cloned debit card at ATMs in Pandharpur and Aurangabad between September 25 and 26, last year.
The developer, Vilas Paline, had initially filed a complaint application with the Pune cyber police, who carried out a preliminary inquiry before transferring the matter to the Bharati Vidyapeeth police on Wednesday.
Paline told TOI, “I did not receive any call nor had I shared my debit card number and one-time password (OTP) with anyone. My card was cloned and money was withdrawn from my account using various ATMs. I came to known about the incident after I started receiving text messages of the transactions done.”
Paline said, ‘I got my card blocked and surrendered it to the nationalised bank at Ambegaon branch. I filled out a distress form for claiming refund of the money illegally transferred from my saving account as I had not shared card details and I was at my residence at Dhankawadi when the incident occurred. I lodged a police complaint after I failed to get back my money from the bank.”
A police official associated with the investigations said, “The bank’s board of directors asked Pilane to register FIR as per the guidelines of Reserve Bank of India.”