Thane Crime: 3 more held for breaching payment gateway service provider's system

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The Thane police have taken three more persons into custody over a financial crime that involved breaching the payment gateway service provider's system and siphoning off Rs 25 crore.

So far, seven people have been arrested in the case, an official said on Friday.

"The three have been identified as Kedar Dighe(41), Sandeep Nakashe (38), and Ram Bohra (47). They were arrested late on Thursday night," said Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Dr Punjabrao Ugale.

The financial fraud came to light after a complaint was lodged in the Srinagar police station in Thane in April 2023. The complainant alleged that the system of a payment service provider was hacked, leading to the siphoning off of Rs 25 crore.

During the probe into the matter, the cyber cell team of Thane police came across suspicious transactions of more than Rs 16,180 crore.

On October 6, the Naupada police in Thane registered a case against five persons under sections 420 (cheating), 409 (criminal breach of trust), 467, 468 (forgery), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common intention) and provisions of the Information Technology Act.

"As per the FIR, one of the accused, named Jitendra Pandey, earlier worked for 8 to 10 years with banks as a relationship and sales manager," the official said.

"The accused in the case had set up many fake partnership firms to carry out dubious transactions. Of those arrested, some are associated with these fake companies," an official said.

Meanwhile, in another incident, An offence has been registered against six persons for allegedly manhandling a team of police personnel and preventing officials of a state-run power company from installing an electricity meter in Maharashtra's Thane city, an official said on Friday.

(with inputs from PTI)