Two men who are allegedly part of a racket that duped a resident of Uttarpara in Hooghly district of Rs 2.18 lakh have been arrested in Kolkata.
Police said one of them, Ravi Kumar Sonkar, let his bank account be used for depositing the money swindled out of the complainant and the other, Anand Singh, withdrew a part of the cash from an ATM kiosk.
Complainant Snehasish Ghosh had told the police that a caller posing as a bank official had in November last year convinced him to install an app on his phone through a link. After he did so, Rs 2.18 lakh was allegedly transferred from his account.
The police said the money was transferred through multiple accounts before it was withdrawn from two ATM kiosks — one at Deoghar in Jharkhand and the other at the Khanna intersection in north Kolkata.
“Singh allegedly withdrew the money from the ATM kiosk at the Khanna intersection,” an officer said.