₹12 lakh siphoned off from bank accounts of dead man

Vadodara: A non-resident Indian (NRI) has registered a complaint of cyber fraud, stating that Rs 12 lakh were siphoned off from his late father’s two bank accounts over the last two years.
The complainant Kabir Mirpuri said father Jaikishan was a manager in the UCO Bank and retired in 2000.
Later, Mirpuri and his younger brother shifted to Canada with Jaikishan.
In 2005, Mirpuri shifted to the US for a job and his father too went to stay with him. But Jaikishan used to stay in Vadodara for three months every year.
In May 2020, Jaikishan contracted Covid-19 and died during treatment. A year later, Mirpuri came to India and went to UCO Bank where his father had different accounts. The bank manager told him that it would take time to transfer funds from the account to his, so Mirpuri left for the US.
He returned to Vadodara in September this year and went to the bank again where he learnt his father had another savings account where his pension money was deposited.
Some unidentified person was withdrawing money from this account by using a debit card. Similarly, money was also withdrawn from Jaikishan’s bank account in ICICI through debit card.
The cybercrooks withdrew Rs 80,000 from ICICI bank and Rs 11.36 lakh from UCO Bank.
Mirpuri said in his complaint that someone stole the debit cards and the personal identification numbers (PIN) for withdrawing the money.