Three fraudsters held for withdrawing money from bank

Three persons have been arrested for cheating and transferring over Rs 20,000 from a bank account into their own, police said today.

Ankush Skarma lodged a complaint at Vijaypur police station as an amount of Rs 21800 was deducted from his account, following his withdrawal of Rs 800 from his bank account on August 8.

"Police started investigation and three accused identified as Dharminder Kumar, Dharminder Singh and Narender Kumar were arrested and after sustained interrogation they confessed their crime," a police officer said.

He said that an amount of Rs 17,000 was also recovered from their possession.

The accused had forged the signature of the victim to withdraw the money and it was found that they were involved in other similar cases.