Puducherry: The Mahatma Gandhi Government Dental College is located at Gorimedu, near Puducherry. The college’s bank account is with a private bank in Puducherry. More than 300 employees working at the college, which is run through a cooperative society, have not been paid their salaries for the past three months. Since it was Diwali, arrangements were made to disburse the salaries.
For this purpose, Rs. 8.85 crore was transferred through the government treasury to the dental college’s bank account on the night of the 3rd. Including the amount already in the account, there was Rs. 8.85 crore in the bank account. But all of this money suddenly vanished that night.
Following this, the college dean, Kennedy Babu, filed a complaint with the Gorimedu Cyber Crime Police. After that, Lieutenant Governor Kailashnathan called and spoke with representatives from the bank and the cyber crime wing.
The bank management must take responsibility for the money. The Lieutenant Governor ordered that the salary amount be handed over immediately to the college administration. After that, the employees were paid their salaries.
Meanwhile, police led by Cyber Crime Division Inspector Keerthivarman registered a case and conducted an investigation into the disappearance of this amount.
During the investigation, it was found that a portion of the defrauded amount, Rs. 38 lakh, had been transferred to one bank account and Rs. 8 lakh to another bank account.
Further, various online methods and tools were used to identify whose bank account it was. It was found that they had been living in Coimbatore and Tiruppur and the surrounding areas.
Following this, cyber crime officers rushed to Coimbatore and Tiruppur on the orders of Senior SP Raghav and SP Anurag Chopra. In this, they arrested Hajanajubudeen (55) from Ondipudur area of Coimbatore and a woman named Basriya (39) from Kottampalayam in Tiruppur.
They were brought to Puducherry and interrogated. It was found that, at the request of those involved in the fraud, they had opened new bank accounts and handed over the related bank transaction documents and ATM cards to other persons, and had also received the fraudulent money and passed it on to the concerned persons in return for a commission.
Following this, the police seized the mobile phones they had and collected the important digital evidence from them.
Later, both were produced before the Puducherry court and lodged in Kalapet Central Prison today. In addition, the police are continuing efforts to arrest the key people involved in this case.
