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Live-in help forges 95-year-old’s cheque, swindles Rs 1.2 lakh in Vadodara
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The Indian Express
The live-in caretaker has now been booked for forging his employer’s signature to swindle Rs 1.2 lakh and attempting to withdraw Rs 22 lakh more.
The fraud came to light after the retiree’s son noticed a discrepancy while withdrawing cash using his ATM card.
A mini-statement revealed that Rs 1.2 lakh had been withdrawn through a cheque bearing a forged signature on May 22, five days before the caretaker, Anilbhai Ambalal Makwana, left the family.
It was only on June 1, when Jagrut went to withdraw cash using his father’s ATM card, that he noticed the withdrawal of Rs 1.2 lakh.
Cheque for Rs 22 lakh from pension accountDays later, on June 5, the family received a bank alert about a second cheque—this one for Rs 22 lakh, drawn on the father’s pension account with Bank of India—submitted for clearance.