CCB nabs 6 in Delhi for swindling ₹2.13 crore from senior citizen

Victim is the widow of former Chief Commissioner of Central Excise

The Anti-Bank Fraud Wing of Central Crime Branch on Saturday arrested a gang of six online scamsters operating from Delhi who swindled ₹2.13 crore from the wife of a former Chief Commissioner of Central Exercise. They had committed the fraud posing as representatives of an insurance who were assigned the responsibility of disbursal of residual insurance amount on her husband. “The victim was in utter shock and mentally under the control of the fraudsters on the other end. She had credited the money from her account on her own volition to the accounts which were dictated by the fraudsters for six months. Initially, there was no clue on who was involved in the fraud,” said a senior officer of Anti Bank Fraud Wing. The police said Sudha Sridharan, 68, is a resident of Mandaveli and wife of the late J. Sridharan, who was Chief Commissioner of Central Excise. In March 2019, a person called the victim on her landline posing as an officer in a life insurance company. The caller told her that ₹19 lakh remained to be settled towards her insurance claim following the demise of her husband. She was made to credit a few lakhs to a fictitious account mentioned by the fraudster. Later, another caller asked her to transfer funds to another account.