Two persons have been arrested for allegedly cheating people on the pretext of helping them make deposits into their bank accounts, the police said on Friday.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-East) Chinmoy Biswal said that the accused have been identified as Jitender Mehto (32) and Baccha Lal Kumar (19), both labourers. They hail from Bihar’s west Champaran and were arrested on July 4 when they had come to look for targets at a bank in Bhogal.
The police said that a man approached them on June 7 with a complaint saying that two persons swindled ₹45,000 from him on the pretext of helping him deposit cash in his account using a cash depositing machine.
During investigation, CCTV footage was examined and the accused were identified.
During interrogation, they said they used to work as labourers in West Bengal. They met one Babu, who was also from their village and used to work in Delhi, a few months ago.
Babu, who was into duping people, lured them to join him. They used to give Babu 20% of the money they made, the police said.
Modus operandi
Mr. Biswal said that the accused used to pretend to help their targets deposit cash and would secretly press the “add transaction” button on the machine and would tell them that the deposit was successful. However, as soon as the target leaves the premise, the accused press the “cancel” button, resulting in a failed transaction due to which the cash would come out of the machine, the police said.
