Rakesh Bedi's wife loses Rs 4.98 lakh in cyber scam months after the actor was conned 

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Months after television actor Rakesh Bedi was conned by a fake army man, his wife Aradhana fell for a cyber scam and lost Rs 4.98 lakh. As per reports she received a phone call where she was informed of money wrongly being transferred to her account. The person then asked her for an OTP to receive the payment. Aradhana realized that it was a fraudulent call and disconnected immediately but realized that the said amount was already siphoned off leaving her shocked.

Rakesh has worked in several films and TV shows including 'Mera Damaad', 'Chashme Buddoor', and so on. As per ETimes, Aradhana took the matter to the cops. Mohan Patil of Oshiwara police said that the amount was deducted despite Bedi not sharing an OTP. The officials are currently investigating the matter.

The incident comes months after her husband and actor Rakesh Bedi was conned of Rs 85,000. In January this year, Rakesh alleged that he was cheated by a purported army man when he attempted to sell his flat in Pune. According to a complaint lodged by Bedi, 69, with Oshiwara Police Station, the purported army man was one Aditya Kumar who had responded to an online ad for buying the actor's flat.

The accused called up Bedi claiming he was interested in buying the flat and the duo also agreed on the price of around Rs 87 lakhs. The prospective buyer, who also showed his identity card and other documents proving he was in the Indian Army, offered to pay from his ‘army account' and asked Bedi to deposit Rs 85,000. Bedi fell for him as he had earlier sold one of his properties to genuine defence personnel without any hassles. Kumar even shared his account number with Bedi and sought a test transfer of Re 1, and after it was successful, asked to transfer Rs 50,000.

Then he told the actor that he had transferred the amount back, but when Bedi said he had not received it, the accused gave evasive replies. He asked Bedi to transfer two amounts of Rs 25,000 and Rs 10,000 from his wife's accounts which he did, but thereafter, the self-proclaimed army man Kumar stopped taking the actor's calls. Realising that he had been cheated by the so-called army man, Bedi finally lodged a police complaint.

(With inputs from IANS)