Ranchi: Police on Monday arrested a third-year computer science student for fraudulently withdrawing Rs 1.88 lakh from multiple bank accounts of his landlady between June 2 and June 15.Ranchi SP (rural) Praveen Pushkar on Tuesday said that Abhishek Kumar, a native of Vaishali district in Bihar, was arrested in Ranchi. Four mobile phones were seized from him in this connection.He said, “Anima Tigga, a resident of Dugdugia Basti under Pundaag police outpost, lodged a complaint with the cyber police station on June 21 alleging that Rs 1.88 lakh was illegally withdrawn from her accounts in Punjab National Bank (PNB), Union Bank of India, and State Bank of India. Police registered a case and, based on technical inputs, arrested the accused.”The SP said that Kumar, a student in a private college in Ranchi, was living on rent at Tigga’s house. He said that Kumar often helped Tigga, who is in her 40s, with online transactions and was also aware of her UPI PIN. He said that one day Kumar found her mobile phone unattended and took out her SIM card and started using it. He generated the UPIs of her bank accounts and credit card using the SIM card and transferred the amounts, the SP said. The woman told the police that she was not being able to figure out why her phone wasn’t working, but didn’t approach anyone then. It is after she realised that such a large sum was withdrawn from her accounts she lodged the complaint. Police said that it is likely that Kumar took the step to meet his expenses, which increased after he became friends with a girl.
