Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): An outsourced employee of a bank allegedly duped a customer of ₹2.05 lakh on pretext of issuing a new credit card. The accused took advantage of the victim's trust by collecting his old credit card and mobile phone and transferred the money to his own account in two transactions. Koh-e-Fiza police registered a case and arrested the accused on Saturday.
According to police, accused Arjun Meena (21), from Kalapipal, currently resides in a rented house in Pushpa Nagar and works as an outsourced credit card executive for a private bank.
The victim, Ashok Kumar Jaiswal, a resident of Janki Nagar in Lalghati runs a grocery shop on Gufa Mandir Road. Jaiswal was looking to replace his expired credit card and was approached by Arjun, who introduced himself as a bank employee. Jaiswal met Meena to get a new credit card issued on Thursday.
Meena claimed he needed Jaiswal’s mobile phone and old credit card to verify details and complete the KYC (Know Your Customer) process. After taking the card and phone, the accused transferred ₹10k from Jaiswal’s account to his own and told him to come the next day.
On Friday, Arjun again took the card and phone and transferred another ₹1.95 lakh. He then told Jaiswal that the KYC process would take 2-3 more days and returned the card and phone.
The fraud came to light when Jaiswal received an SMS from his bank later that night, informing him about the transactions totalling ₹2.05 lakh. Realising that he had been duped, he approached Koh-e-Fiza police station and registered an FIR.
