Guwahati: A senior official of a leading PSU bank has been arrested for allegedly withdrawing ₹26 lakh from the account of a retired DIG of Assam Police, an official said on Sunday. Guwahati Police Commissioner Diganta Barah said the 84-year-old former DIG Bhabdhar Dutta had lodged a complaint at the Dispur police station last month alleging that an amount of ₹26 lakh from his account in Barbary Bank branch was unauthorisedly transferred to various other bank accounts without his consent or knowledge. “Preliminary investigation revealed that the transactions were carried out mainly with three persons. On cross-examining these persons, they revealed that a particular person, who was the then branch manager, had carried out those transactions,” he said. The accused was currently employed as the assistant manager of the bank’s specialised foreign exchange management branch in Dispur and allegedly carried out such transactions through internet banking. “Based on his statements, the accused has been detained. During interrogation, he revealed that he had been targeting dormant accounts for fraud and unauthorised use for a long time,” Barah said. In this case, they found that there was no registered mobile number linked to the victim’s bank account and the account was not in use for the last three years. “To do this, he took the help of another person, who has also been arrested, to obtain a SIM card and a used mobile phone. He obtained the number registered to the victim’s bank account, created a user ID and password without the knowledge of the account holder. “It was only when the plaintiff updated the bank book that he came to know about the unauthorised transactions,” Barah said. He said the accused have confessed to attacking bank accounts that were not operational for a long time and had large sums of money deposited in them. “In this case, the complainant was 84 years old and had not used that particular bank account for the last three years,” he said. This made the accused think that the user of the account must have died, so he hatched the whole conspiracy.” .Police Commissioner. The accused has revealed that from the victim’s account, he settled all his loans through internet banking, which he owed to others. Barah said that the bank employee also invested a certain amount in stock market operations and bought cryptocurrencies. “In this way, a total of about Rs 26 lakh was siphoned off from the complainant’s account. It has also been revealed that the accused had attacked several victims in a similar manner, about whom investigation is underway to gather more information,” he added. This article was produced from an automated news agency feed without making any modifications to the text.
