Five persons, including two women, were arrested for allegedly withdrawing money from banks through forged cheques after stealing bags of courier delivery boys, the police said on Thursday.
Two courier delivery boys lodged separate complaints at the Okhla Industrial Area police station claiming their bags containing various parcels, including a few cheques, were stolen from their vehicles when they went inside offices for delivery.
“During investigation, it came to out notice that the stolen cheques had been encashed from different bank accounts in Delhi, Ghaziabad and Moradabad,’ DCP(Southeast) Chinmoy Biswal said. Sunny (25) and Jyoti were arrested from Ghaziabad and Haldwani respectively. Based on their information, Mahesh Singh (58), Kishan Lal Yadav (54) and Chanchal (32) were also arrested, the DCP said.
They used to erase the original name with the help of a chemical and type the name of a member of their team, the DCP said.
