Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Apr 27: In a complaint filed with the town police station here, a Gulf-based woman has alleged that a person had withdrawn Rs 1.5 lac from her account by misusing her cheque book and faking her signature.

The complainant, Mamata Rao, has named the alleged fraudsters as Mohammed Tasnim and Sarfraz Usman Saheb.

Mamata, who is a resident of Doha Qatar, said that during her visit to the country, she had requested State Bank of India to supply her a cheque book. She had left for the Gulf thereafter. As she did not have a post office box in Qatar, she had requested her family members to arrange for the delivery of the cheque book to her later.

Accordingly, Mamata’s brother had delivered the cheque book in question to Mohammed Tasnim, a colleague of Mamata’s husband, with a request to hand it over to Mamata. Later, when Mamata checked her account on April 4, she found to her horror that Rs 1.50 lac had been withdrawn from her account in the name of Sarfraz Usman Saheb. She has alleged that the concerned had forged her signature on the cheque leaf and withdrawn the said amount.