A man has been arrested by the police by raking up a credit card bill of Rs 15,74,481 by the complaint. The complainant, Jayesh Ranchod Umarhadiya, is a resident of Shreeji tenament at Undera and a retired senior production engineer of IOCL. The accused, Bhavesh Verma, pretended to be an employee with SBI Bank and asked him to sign up for a credit card with SBI. He won the complainant’s trust by telling him that the interest in a savings account is less and asked him to put his money in a fixed deposit account. When the complaint was filling up the credit card form, he put in another phone number and then used the credit card to rake up a bill worth Rs. 15,74,481 / -. The complainant registered a case with the cyber crime cell on 27th Feb and the team traced Bhavesh Verma with the help of the electronic trail he had left. The accused is now in police custody after a joint effort between the team at the cyber crime branch and the team of the crime branch. He has studied till standard

Author-Sweta Joshi