Hyderabad: The cyber crime unit arrested three persons for cheating people by posing as bank officials and withdrawing cash from their accounts. Police seized account pass books, mobile phones and other incriminating items used for the offence from their possession.
The arrested accused were identified as Khirodhar Mandal, 29, native of Jharkhand; Lakshmi Narayan Bauri, 32, native of West Bardhaman in West Bengal and Jahangir Ansari , 34, also from Jharkhand.
The arrest was made based on complaints received from K. Kishore Bhati from Begum Bazar, Madhusudhan Rao from Jubilee Hills and A. Muralidhar from Karkhana stating that they received calls asking for debit and credit card details and also OTP numbers, claiming that they were bank officials and extracted more than a lakh from each of their accounts.
A cyber crime team was sent to Jharkhand and West Bengal to nab the suspects based on information from banks and e-commerce wallets.
They were brought in the city on a prisoner transit warrant and produced before the court.
