Police officials have nabbed another party of crooks involved in a fraud worth crores of rupees. Seven people have been arrested in the case that has taken place in the National Capital Region (NCR). Most of them are bank officials. The gang has been accused of withdrawing money from other peoples' accounts after they hacked into the personalized details of customers of a leading nationalized bank and used fake cheques.

Till now Rs. 27 lakh could be traced by the police which was withdrawn from the accounts of two victims residing in East Delhi and Ghaziabad each.

The Noida SSP has explained the operation schedule of the gang. One of the accused Pradeep Rastogi was employed as a computer operator in the Minto Road branch of Punjab National Bank. Being a computer operator, he had access to central banking system (CBS) of the bank which had highly secure data like personal information and specimen signature of the customers.

He forged these data and passed it to his gang mates. The gang worked so flawlessly that they even knew the exact cheque book which was in possession of the victim at that particular time. They would pick up a number from that cheque book and superimpose it on another cheque of PNB before forging the signature. This cheque would be then deposited at several other banks where they had already opened fake accounts.

Since other banks were dealing with the cheques so only a photocopy of the cheque used to be sent to PNB. So the fraud remained unveiled.

The gang also acted as verification agents of leading telecom providers. They went to people's houses and made them sign an extra copy of the document concerned. In this way the gang collected specimen signatures and faked with them.

The police said so far two women - one Indubala Arora from Kavi Nagar in Ghaziabad and Janak Kapur from Krishna Nagar in east Delhi - have reported a total loss of Rs 27 lakh.

The police have said that the members of the gang were mostly banking personnel so they very well knew the leakages in the banking system which they took advantage of.

Other than Pradeep Rastogi, the other members of the gang are Usman, Yashwant Singh, Imran, Javed, Devilal and Chandra Shekher.