Hyderabad: The cyber crime police have arrested two persons for allegedly siphoning off over Rs three lakh from a bank account by swapping SIMs and forging other details. Two persons were detained by the Rachakonda cyber crime police for allegedly siphoning off Rs 3.68 lakh from the bank account of a tax consultant by resorting to SIM swapping.
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According to police, a complaint was filed by Saranga Sandhya regarding illegal transactions from her deceased husband’s account. Complainant Saranga Sandhya's husband Deepak Saranga used to worked as a tax consultant at Kukatpally and had died due to illness in 2018. This incident came to the light when Sandhya went to the bank to complete some legal formalities and found unauthorized transactions from her husband's bank account.
Based on her complaint, the Cyber Crime team took up an investigation and arrested Muthoju Satyanarayana (48) and Perumalla Sri Durga Krishna Prasad (36) on Monday. Police said that the accused collected personal information of the complainant’s late husband, and fraudulently obtained a duplicate mobile SIM card in his name.
"The accused, Satyanarayana being a close colleague of Deepak, got the copy of his identity proof and bought a new SIM card on Deepak's name. Later, he managed to change the mobile number linked to Deepak's bank account," said S Harinath, ACP cybercrime, Rachakonda. An inspector with the Cyber Crime team, D. Jalandhar Reddy, said that One Time Passwords (OTP) and other details were sent to the new SIM. Thereafter, they transferred the money from Deepak’s account. The duo confessed to their crime before the police. A case was registered under section 417, 419, 420 of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the Information Technology Act.
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