Fraudster nabbed from Ludhiana

Solan,October 5

The Baddi police nabbed Johny Goel, who had fraudulently withdrawn more than Rs 50,000 from the ATM of a State Bank of India branch but ensured that no amount was deducted from any customer’s account, from Ludhiana on Friday evening.

Baddi SP Rohit Malpani said that Goel was initially asked to surrender but he refused, forcing the police to scale the walls of his house and nab him. He used a unique modus operandi to steal cash, as a customer did not receive any alert of cash having been withdrawn.

He was today produced in a local court that remanded him in five-day police custody. The police had registered an FIR on a complaint by the Chief Manager of the State Bank of India branch at Baddi last month. Goel had made eight fraudulent transactions through an ATM-cum-CDM machine installed outside the bank branch premises from April to August 2019 and withdrew around Rs 9,000 every time. He withdrew money using the debit cards of Axis Bank and HDFC Bank.

A case under Section 420 of the IPC has been registered. The Ludhiana police had earlier arrested Goel in a similar case and he was at present out on bail. — TNS