A complaint was filed by an authorised representative of HSBC Bank Saurabh Abrol that a fraud of more than Rs. 2 crore was committed by the accused.
An FIR has been registered under sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using forged document), and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC on Friday, police said.
According to NDTV report, Mr Abrol said in his complaint that a person named Sachin Kathuria, posing as the HR head of a multi-national company, had met the staff of the bank at the Sector 44 branch.
He got salary accounts opened in the bank in the names of 38 people, presenting them as the company’s employees. Money was credited as salaries in these accounts every month, according to the complaint.
Saurabh Abrol further said, “The addresses given by these employees while opening bank accounts were also fake. When we checked the photographs of all these account holders, they did not match.”
“We also started an inquiry against four bank officials who opened these accounts, and issued credit cards and loans,” he said in his complaint”, Saurabh Abrol concluded.
Earlier, a similar case was highlighted that An accused, Pawan Bhardwaj (34 years) was arrested as he posed as Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) HR and cheated people on the pretext of a fake job.
The accused, Pawan Bhardwaj, a resident of Goyala Dairy, informed the police during the questioning that he used to issue online advertisements. Additionally, he used to extract random contact numbers of job seekers from job websites.
Post this Pawan used to approach job seekers with a job in the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in exchange for money. The incident was reported post one of the Job seekers approached the police.
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