SURAT: Three persons were booked at Kapodra police station on Wednesday for cheating State Bank of India by withdrawing fraudulently Rs52,500 cash from its automatic teller machine (ATM) here. The accused took advantage of a technical loophole in the ATM to establish that the money had not been dispensed to them, but CCTV footage exposed their lie. Prem Shankar Yadav, Arjun Jagdish Singh and Ayaz Ahmad Ejaz, natives of Uttar Pradesh, were booked for cheating by police on a complaint by SBI Kapodra branch manager Elizabeth Tudu. The accused were booked under Information Technology Act and Indian Penal Code sections for breach of trust and cheating.The accused were believed to be working as labourers in the city. Police have started a search for them on the basis of their images captured on CCTV camera at the ATM booth.Police investigation revealed that the accused went to the ATM booth on January 12 at around 11.45am with seven debit cards and made multiple transactions. Each time when the machine would dispense the cash they pushed it back. They ensured that the notes didn’t go inside completely.“After holding a note for a few seconds, they would pull it out. The machine would show that the money was not dispensed. The accused later made online complaints to the bank claiming that they were unable to withdraw money from the ATM,” said a police officer at Kapodra police station.When the bank officials checked, the cash was missing from the ATM, but the transaction had failed. The bank officials examined the CCTV footages and found that the accused had withdrawn the cash. The branch manager later lodged the police complaint against the accused.The accused had got their bank accounts opened in a SBI branch in Tamil Nadu. Police suspect they must have opened their bank accounts in Tamil Nadu while working there at some site. Police investigation found they had deposited the money a day before in their accounts and carried out the cheating with the bank next day.

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