Five  arrested For Cheating shopkeepers  around Rs 52 Lakh through   fake  Point of Sale Machines (PSMs)

BY AKSHYA ROUT

Jajpur,AUG 2  : The Jajpur  Police on  Monday   arrested five   persons including a couple  for cheating three jewellery shop owners  around Rs 52 Lakh through   fake  Point of Sale Machines (PSMs)  .

All the arrested  accused  supplied fake  Point of Sale Machines (PSMs)  to the shop owners  and  illegally mapped the machines to their accounts instead of the accounts of the shop owners as a result the payment of many   customers’ money was transferred to the accounts of the accused . 

All the five accused have been identified as Sunil Naik , his wife Malati Naik of Bhubaneswar , Sanjiv Das  of Tangi , Pramod Jena of Jajpur  and Milan Kumar Singh of Nischintakoili .

Police seized 27 cheque books, 63 ATM cards, one credit card, seven mobile phones, one laptop, 21 bank passbooks and 40 SIM cards. As per our investigation, the accused looted around Rs 24 Lakh  from  Prusti  Jewellery shop  at Haripur ,   Rs 7 Lakh from Patra  Jewellery shop from Kuakhia and   Rs 7 Lakh from Krishna Jewellery shop at Jajpur town,  said  Saroj Upadhaya, the Sub- Divisional Police Officer of Jajpur .