Pilibhit: A 68-year-old businessman — Rakesh Chandra Mittal — of Bisalpur tehsil hqs in Pilibhit district was allegedly defrauded of over Rs 16 lakh in a cyber scam involving his two bank accounts on Aug 15, a bank holiday.In a written complaint filed with Bisalpur Kotwali police station and Rahul Pandey, the CO of Bisalpur circle, Mittal alleged that unidentified fraudsters withdrew Rs 614,517 through 13 UPI transactions from his current account and Rs 1,075,072 from his another account between 11 am and 12 noon.SP, Sukirti Madhav, thereafter issued directions to cybercrime cell to register an FIR in the matter. The SP told TOI that multiple teams including the cybercrime cell and the special operations group were deployed to investigate the case.Officer in-charge of cybercrime cell, Krantiveer Singh, said that an FIR against unidentified persons was lodged under BNS section 318 (4) (cheating and dishonestly…) and section 66 (D) (cheating by personation using a computer resource) of the Information Technology Act.
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