Surat: A gang of four landed in the police net after cheating a Mangaluru-based doctor of Rs 2.25 cr.

Sandeep Dahra of Mota Varachha, Daval Bhikhadiya, Savan Balda from Yogi Chowk and another person, whose identity has not been ascertained yet, have been nabbed by the Gujarat police based on a complaint from an Axis Bank employee Omkishan Patel.

The gang faces two other complaints in different parts of the country for cheating people of Rs 5 cr.

Shockingly, Dakhra and Balda are employees of Axis Bank, while Bhikhadiya is a former employee of the same bank. The fraud was carried out between January 8 and January 18.

The fraud

The accused allegedly transferred Rs 2.25 crore from the bank account of one Dr. Sushil Deva Prasad Jathanna with the Axis Bank’s Mangaluru branch, and then changed the account’s ownership details by claiming to the bank officials that Jathana is deceased. They changed the mobile phone number of the victim and later transferred the money. However, the bank recovered Rs 1.23 crore of the total transferred money.

Further investigation revealed that a similar fraud took place in Mangaluru of Karnantaka and Sirsa of Haryana, in which money was withdrawn from Jathana’s account.