Coimbatore: An 85-year-old woman lodged a complaint with the city police commissioner on Friday alleging that unidentified people had swindled about Rs 4.9 lakh from her bank account using an ATM card which she never owned.“My mother doesn’t have an ATM card for her bank account, but the amount was withdrawn using an ATM card,” said S Abdul Hakim, victim’s son, alleging the involvement of bank officials in the fraudulent.The woman, S Usain Bibi, a resident of Kunniyamuthur, has been collecting pension after the demise of her husband Syed, who was a sanitary supervisor with the civic body, in 1978. She maintains a saving account with a nationalized bank.Hakim said his mother would withdraw a few thousands of rupees from the bank after submitting a withdrawal slip at the counter every three to four months. When the victim approached the bank during early June, the bank authorities had told her that the account do not have any balance.The preliminary inquiry with the bank has revealed that the bank has issued an ATM card for this account a couple of weeks ago and the entire amount was withdrawn within a few days after the card was issued, he said.Around Rs 50,000 per day was withdrawn from her account using the ATM card at various centres between May 25 and June 4. An amount of Rs 50,000 was withdrawn at the counter, he said reciting the bank transaction details.The bank officials had given approval for the ATM card after the accused has submitted a photocopy of Usain Bibi’s Aadhar card. Hakim questioned as how the bank officials approved the request of an unknown person without intimating the account holder.Usually, the bank cards would be sent through courier to the residential address, but in this case, the officials had handed it over to the accused in hand, he said. “We were not even intimated about the disbursement of the card,” he added.The complaint was forwarded to the cyber cell of the city police who are further investigating the case.

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