CHENNAI: A 45-year-old guy from Injambakkam who was on a cheque looting spree, from atleast ten banks in Adyar, Neelankarai, Sastri Nagar and Velachery, for the past 4 years was arrested on Thursday.
The guy was identified as R Suresh Kumar, 45, of Tiruvallur Salai Injambakkam, is a repeat offender who was arrested in one such similar case in 2014. The arrest was made in line with a grievance from one Chithra, 56, of Thiruvanmiyur, whose cheque containing Rs 1.40 lakh was misplaced within the Union Bank of India, Kottivakkam. When Chithra’s cheque was not venerated, even after ten days, she went on the lookout for the cheque when she was told that no cheque existed on her name. The bank officials did not take serious word of the case and told her that she might have misplaced the cheque. Suspecting foul play she lodged a grievance with Neelangarai police.
R Suresh Kumar (in %) would scouse borrow cheques, as observed in footage (Left)
A workforce headed by way of inspector Okay Natraj and his workforce scanned the CCTV footage and located a person picking up the cheque from the bank. The police identified the repeat offender and nabbed him from his space in Injambakkam.
Interrogations printed that he were operating within the bank for the past 4 years and centered atleast 10 banks. The suspect was identified to the workforce of the bank where the sufferer Chithra misplaced her cheque. “He had unfastened access within the bank as one in every of his relative was hired within the bank and has retired now. None of them questioned him and he moved freely,” stated an investigating officer.
Explaining his modus operandi the officer stated, he randomly looted the cheques that have been deposited within the box and encashed the same within the counter. He would carefully watch the cutomers who came to deposit the cheques. He took word of the name at the cheque and the quantity before it was dropped. Later when the bank workforce gathered the cheques from the box, he approached them claiming that there was a mistake within the quantity he had mentioned within the cheque and he would expose the cheque bearer’s name and the quantity as it should be. The bank workforce would believed his model and give him the correct cheque, the police added. “He chose cheques which had smaller quantity, because the bank workforce might ask for id proof if the quantity was large,” stated the officer. The officer stated the banks too have been careless in delivering the cash with out proof. Suresh Kumar spent many of the cash in online rummy recreation. He led a luxurious lifestyles and deposited a lumpsum quantity in his spouse’s account. He has been booked for cheating and forgery and remanded in judicial custody.
The guy was identified as R Suresh Kumar, 45, of Tiruvallur Salai Injambakkam, is a repeat offender who was arrested in one such similar case in 2014. The arrest was made in line with a grievance from one Chithra, 56, of Thiruvanmiyur, whose cheque containing Rs 1.40 lakh was misplaced within the Union Bank of India, Kottivakkam. When Chithra’s cheque was not venerated, even after ten days, she went on the lookout for the cheque when she was told that no cheque existed on her name. The bank officials did not take serious word of the case and told her that she might have misplaced the cheque. Suspecting foul play she lodged a grievance with Neelangarai police.
R Suresh Kumar (in %) would scouse borrow cheques, as observed in footage (Left)
A workforce headed by way of inspector Okay Natraj and his workforce scanned the CCTV footage and located a person picking up the cheque from the bank. The police identified the repeat offender and nabbed him from his space in Injambakkam.
Interrogations printed that he were operating within the bank for the past 4 years and centered atleast 10 banks. The suspect was identified to the workforce of the bank where the sufferer Chithra misplaced her cheque. “He had unfastened access within the bank as one in every of his relative was hired within the bank and has retired now. None of them questioned him and he moved freely,” stated an investigating officer.
Explaining his modus operandi the officer stated, he randomly looted the cheques that have been deposited within the box and encashed the same within the counter. He would carefully watch the cutomers who came to deposit the cheques. He took word of the name at the cheque and the quantity before it was dropped. Later when the bank workforce gathered the cheques from the box, he approached them claiming that there was a mistake within the quantity he had mentioned within the cheque and he would expose the cheque bearer’s name and the quantity as it should be. The bank workforce would believed his model and give him the correct cheque, the police added. “He chose cheques which had smaller quantity, because the bank workforce might ask for id proof if the quantity was large,” stated the officer. The officer stated the banks too have been careless in delivering the cash with out proof. Suresh Kumar spent many of the cash in online rummy recreation. He led a luxurious lifestyles and deposited a lumpsum quantity in his spouse’s account. He has been booked for cheating and forgery and remanded in judicial custody.
Cheque thief, who encashed lakhs, held
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