Mumbai crime: 40-year-old man held for replacing RTGS forms in bank drop boxes

The Sakinaka police have arrested a 40yearold man from Andheri for allegedly replacing the RTGS Real Time Gross Settlement form attached to cheques in the drop boxes of nationalised banks and transferring Rs 3 lakh Another accused in the case is still at largeAccording to the police sources the arrested accused has been identified as Shakil Ibrahim Zariwala alias Anwar KhanDuring the inquiry it was revealed that Khan along with his aide opened the drop boxes of the nationalised banks and replaced the RTGS forms attached to the cheques with forms containing another account numberAnother person involvedDuring interrogation it has come to light that an accomplice is also involved in the crime The duo visited different banks in the morning for recce Zariwala would stop at the bank pretend to be a customer and search for targetsWhen the target was finalised Zariwala would inform his aide Later he would enter the bank pretending to be a customer He would then take advantage of the situation and steal the cheques from the dropbox said an officerAccount number turned out to be fakeThe incident came to light when the Balaji Engineering Steel Corporation located in Andheri registered a complaint at Sakinaka police station on January 12 claiming that Rs 3 lakh were debited from his accountThe complainant had put a cheque of Rs 35 lakh in the banks dropbox along with the RTGS form to transfer the money to his other bank account However instead of transferring Rs 35 lakh his account was debited of Rs 3 lakhWhen the police questioned the bank employees they said that they had made a mistake and had transferred only Rs 3 lakh instead of Rs 35 lakh in the account said an officerOn checking the RTGS form we found that the account number written on it was different from the complainants account number The account number belonged to some Kotanyaga Bhushan from Yes Bank which turned out to be fake the officer addedBank employees never noticedldquoCCTV footage of the bank showed a man opening the dropbox on January 12 between 1 pm and 3 pm He was seen taking out a cheque which was attached to a form instead of it being dropped in the cheque box in front of the bank employees said another officerWe later found that the accused had detached the RTGS form from the cheque deposited by Balaji Engineering Steel Corporation and replaced it with another one containing another account number He also carbonised the signature on the form right in front of the bank employees but they could not notice it the officer saidSimilar cases at 2 police stationsHe added We circulated the CCTV grab of the accused to other police stations to find out whether the accused was wanted anywhere We learned from the Amboli and Jogeshwari police that similar cases were registered with them We learned from informers that the accused was spotted in Amboli and was a resident of that area We laid a trap and arrested himZariwala has been arrested under various sections of The Indian Penal Code including forgery and cheating He was produced before the court and was remanded to police custody