MP Doctor cheated of Rs 93000 by man posing as Army official
Indore: In a case of cyber fraud, a 70-year-old doctor in Indore in Madhya Pradesh was allegedly duped of Rs 93000 by a man posing as a military havildar, a police official said.
Dr. Rajkumar Mathur was called by a man who identified himself as an Army havildar posted in Jammu and Kashmir, said Tilaknagar police station in-charge, Manju Yadav.
"The accused said his younger brother required surgery for kidney stones for which he needed Rs 60,000. Amid the conversation on the online transfer of this amount, the accused managed to siphon off Rs 93,871 from the doctor's account," Yadav said.
The official added that a case was registered under the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act provisions, and a probe was underway.
Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that a retired Indian Air Force (IAF) doctor from Bhubaneswar had lost Rs 1.46 lakh after cyber fraudsters cheated him on the pretext of electricity bill payment.
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