A city businessman has lodged a police complaint alleging he was duped of Rs 84 lakh by someone who hacked into his online banking portal, police said.

An officer of Hare Street police station said: “Preliminary inquiry suggests that the fraudsters had reported loss of a SIM card that actually belonged to the complainant and got a new SIM card issued.”

The SIM card that was deactivated was registered with a current account in the name of Shivam Arora, 30, the police said.

“It appears that the original SIM card was deactivated to ensure that Arora did not receive any text message from the bank when money was transferred out of his account and so that the fraudsters got time to transfer the amount through multiple accounts and e-wallets,” the officer said.

It is not clear whether the money that was transferred out of the complainant’s bank account had been withdrawn through ATMs or only had been transferred through multiple accounts.

In majority of such cases, the transferred money is first sent into bank accounts or e-wallets that are opened using fake identity documents and then withdrawn using ATM cards of the respective bank accounts, said a senior officer.

Male nurse arrested

A woman, who had been admitted to a private hospital along EM Bypass last week, was allegedly molested by a male nurse, the patient’s family has alleged. The victim’s father had dialled 100 to alert Calcutta police headquarters in Lalbazar and the accused was arrested.

Police said according to the complaint registered with Anandapur police station, a male nurse had allegedly molested the woman when she was semiconscious because of the effect of medicines. “She woke up and started screaming seeing him. Her father dialled 100. Anandapur police station received an alert from Lalbazar and the duty officer went to the hospital,” said a senior police officer.

The victim gave a written complaint against the hospital staff member and based on that a case under section 354A of the Indian Penal Code that deals with outrage of modesty, was registered with Anandapur police station.