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65-year-old from Pune’s Sangvi duped by fake RBI employees
The senior citizen, identified as Ramdas Yadav Deshmukh, is a resident of Old Sangvi area of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) and a retired senior official of the Central Excise Department. Deshmukh received a call from the three accused, who spoke to him in Hindi, in September 2017. They claimed to be employees of a fictitious department of the RBI called the fund releasing department.
A 65-year-old man from Pune was duped of close to ₹40 lakh by three people posing as employees of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The senior citizen, identified as Ramdas Yadav Deshmukh, is a resident of Old Sangvi area of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) and a retired senior official of the Central Excise Department.
Three people, identified only as Rahul Saxena, Raman Kumar Jha and Akanksha, were booked in the case.
Deshmukh received a call from the three accused, who spoke to him in Hindi, in September 2017. They claimed to be employees of a fictitious department of the RBI called the fund releasing department.
The three told the complainant that he was liable to receive ₹1.61 crore as part of his insurance policy from the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India and that the amount was released by LIC. The three then told the complainant that there were a few conditions he had to fulfil before he would be credited the money. These requirements included payment of Goods and Services Tax (GST), transaction fee, and other taxes, according to the police.
The complainant was asked to make various online payments in order to receive the money. Between November 14, 2017 and April 4, 2018, he made various transactions, collectively worth ₹39,36,304, through three bank accounts. The bank accounts were in State Bank of India, Saraswat Bank, and Cosmos Bank, according to the complaint.
A case under Sections 420, 406 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 66(c)(d) of Information Technology Act was registered against the three at Sangvi police station. Mahendra K Ahire, assistant police inspector of Old Sangvi police outpost, under the jurisdiction of Sangvi police station, is investigating the case.
