September 11, 2020 6:25:11 am
Ayodhya (CO) circle officer Amar Singh said that the investigation so far has revealed that the controls were placed for clearance in Mumbai and therefore UP police teams can be sent to Mumbai for investigation.
UNIDENTIFIED FRAUD used two cloned checks to withdraw Rs 6 lakh from the bank account of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, intended for the collection of funds for the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, police said on Thursday. The fraud came to light when a third check of Rs 9.86 lakh was placed for dispatch on Wednesday, after which a verification call was made to the Secretary General of the Trust, Champat Rai, asking if anyone at the Trust was making a retirement. An FIR was then registered at the Ayodhya Kotwali Police Station in Ayodhya.
According to the FIR registered on the basis of Rai’s complaint, around 11:40 am on Wednesday, he received a call from Lucknow asking him if he had made a payment of Rs 9.86 lakh from check number 740798, and when it was confirmed It was found that the given check number was already there on the check book.
“We later learned that on September 1, Rs 2.50 lakh was transferred to an account in the Trust’s account using check number 740799. On September 8, check number 740800 was used to transfer 3.50 rupee lakh. All the given check numbers are already on the check book, which means that unidentified persons have taken a total of Rs 6 lakh using two fake checks and fake signatures on their account, ”Rai told the FIR.
The complaint also says that a payment account of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust is at the Nayaghaat branch of the State Bank of India, and the checks on the account require the signatures of Champat Rai and Trust member Anil Mishra. The FIR was registered under sections 471 (using a forgery as genuine), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), 467 (forging valuable security, will, etc.), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing the delivery of property) and 419 (cheating by impersonation) of the IPC.
Ayodhya (CO) circle officer Amar Singh said that the investigation so far has revealed that the controls were placed for clearance in Mumbai and therefore UP police teams can be sent to Mumbai for investigation. “The number mentioned in the FIR from which the plaintiff received the call is from Lucknow, however we have discovered that the defendant had gone to the Mumbai banks to present the forged checks. The first two checks were placed at branches of two banks in Lucknow. As the check had a much larger amount this time, a verification call was made, ”said the CO.
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