India / Withdrawing Rs 97,500 from Sakshi Maharaj's bank account using fake cheques, 2 held

New Delhi: The Delhi Police arrested two persons for withdrawing Rs 97,500 from the bank account of Lok Sabha MP Sakshi Maharaj. The alleged fraudsters used fake cheques to withdraw money from BJP leader Sakshi Maharaj.

New Delhi District Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Deepak Yadav said the accused, identified as Nihal Singha and Dinesh Rai, were arrested from Bihar.

Nihal Singh, a graduate, has allegedly siphoned off money from the bank accounts of other people as well. Nihal was arrested from Patna.

The police said, “He was taken on transit remand and brought to Delhi for questioning.”

On the basis of Nihal’s questioning, Dinesh Rai was arrested from Bihar’s Chapra.

The police said Sakshi Maharaj, who is an MP from Unnao in Uttar Pradesh, had lodged a complaint at the Sansad Marg police station in New Delhi. In his complaint, Sakshi Maharaj said Rs 97,500 had gone missing from his State Bank of India account.

In their investigation, the police found that the two fraudsters had submitted three fake cheques to the bank. Two of them were encashed. The stolen money was then transferred from their account to a second bank account and then via Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to three different bank accounts. Later, the accused withdrew that money from an ATM (automated teller machine).