Man defrauded of Rs 62,000 through net-banking

Another reports defamatory e-mails; cases registered

Chandigarh, January 12
Two cases of cyber fraud were registered in the city today. The first was registered on the complaint of a Sector-15 resident who was duped of Rs 62,000, the money having been siphoned off from his account through net-banking.

The complainant, running a travel agency, had an account with the Sector-8 branch of Induslnd Bank and the money was transferred to an account with the Punjab National Bank at Dimapur in Nagaland.

After the complaint was lodged with the police, investigations revealed that the money had been transferred to a bank account in Nagaland, opened under a fake name of Vitoni Choppy. The case was registered after legal opinion.

It was alleged that the account to which the money was transferred had been opened in the name of Vitoni Choppy, a resident of Xukye village in the Uiuland subdivision.

While Rs 40,000 was transferred on January 2, another Rs 22,000 were transferred on January 4. A case under Sections 66 and 66-C of the IT Act was registered at the Sector-3 police station.

In the other case, Gurmeet Singh Arora, chairman of the ABC Montessori School at Sector 9, alleged that BM Rudhra Mani of Karnataka had defamed him.

According to the complaint, Mani had sent illegal e-mails to Arora’s business associates, franchisees and students’ parents. A case under Sections 66-A of the IT Act was registered today after legal opinion.