Gondia (Maharashtra): Police have arrested a 25-year-old man from Nagpur for fraudulently withdrawing nearly Rs 2 lakh from the bank account of the mother of Maharashtra BJP MLA Vijay Rahangdale in Gondia district, an official said on Friday.
The accused, Roshan Shyamsunder Shahare, a resident of Gittikhadan in Nagpur, told the police he accessed the bank account details of the 82-year-old woman from a mobile SIM card which he purchased recently, said the official.
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Using the details stored in the SIM card, Shahare withdrew Rs 1,82,048 online between July 3 and July 16 from the account maintained with the branch of a government-owned bank in Tirora town of Gondia district, he said.
After the fraudulent transactions came to light, Tirora MLA Rahangdale`s personal assistant Vivek Dhore lodged a police complaint.
While probing the case, the police zeroed in on Shahare and arrested him, said the official.
A cheating case under section 318 (4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) was registered against the accused, he added.
