The Hyderabad police on Thursday registered a case and arrested one person on charges of fraud, after he allegedly transferred close to Rs 63 lakh to his account from that of his employer.
The police said that the accused, P Venkata Ramana, was a native of Chittoor District in Andhra Pradesh and had joined as a car driver and house help at the residence of a retired IAS officer, who was partially blind, and his old wife, in 2012.
“The victim and his wife are very old and partially blind. Their children live abroad. He (The accused) used to accompany the former IAS officer to the bank, where he was having a joint bank account with his wife,” CCS officials said.
“The accused worked as a driver at the house of the retired IAS officer and lived in the servant quarters. He had won the couple’s confidence and during his work period, in August 2018, obtained the User ID and password for internet banking pertaining to the SBI bank account of the victim. With the help of a woman working with a money transfer office, he withdrew Rs 63 lakh from the account and used for his personal purposes,” the Cyber Crime police was quoted as saying.
The couple realised what had happened when they visited the bank in April, to find out that several unauthorised transactions had taken place. Following this, they filed a complaint. The police soon managed to trace the bank account details of the accused and picked him up.
According to preliminary investigations, the cyber crime police said that the accused was in debt and largely used the money that he allegedly siphoned off to pay off loans. After his arrest, he was presented in front of a local court and sent to judicial remand.