Virendra Gahwai, Bilaspur. Even educated people are becoming victims of fraudsters. One such recent case has come to light in Bilaspur district, where a cunning fraudster has cheated the Deputy Director of Employment Office of Rs 6 lakh 42 thousand online by luring him to update the KYC of his bank account. This case is of Sarkanda police station area. After the complaint of the incident, the police have registered a case against unknown accused and have started investigation.
According to the information, Vishnu Prasad Kedia, who lives in Mopka of Sarkanda police station area, is a deputy director in the employment office. On May 10, he received a call on his mobile, in which the caller introduced himself as a bank officer and lured him into getting his SBI account KYC done. After that, he was asked to transfer money in installments on different pretexts. On this, the unknown accused transferred Rs 6 lakh 42 thousand in different installments, yet the money was being demanded. Then the deputy director realized that he had been cheated online. After which he lodged a report of the incident at the police station. On the report of the victim, the police have registered a case against the unknown accused under section 420, 66 G and are investigating.