Man duped of Rs. 4 lakh

An employee of a private company was duped by a man at the Kotak Mahindra Bank here on Saturday afternoon.

An employee of a private company was duped by a man at the Kotak Mahindra Bank here on Saturday afternoon.

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The victim thought the man to be a bank employee.

The man tricked him and fled with Rs. 4 lakh.

According to the police, Kanhaiya Jha and Rajkumar had come to the Sector 18 branch of the bank to deposit Rs. 5 lakh.

"I was waiting in the queue to deposit the money, while Rajkumar was waiting outside the bank. A person told me that I was standing in the wrong queue. I thought he might be a bank employee so I shifted to another queue. He then asked me to fill my PAN card details as it was a big amount. While I was doing the paper work, he told me that the bank does not accept currency notes with pins and that I should remove them from two bundles amounting to Rs. 1 lakh. I trusted him and gave him Rs. 4 lakh to hold. When I returned to collect the money, he was missing," said Kanhaiya Jha.

The police have now taken the CCTV footage to identify the accused.