Times News NetworkPanchkula, September 19A Sector 11 resident has allegedly lost Rs 1.13 lakh from her Canara Bank account after an unidentified person gained access to her UPI facility and made three unauthorised transactions over three days.According to the complaint, Jyoti Sharma, a homemaker, operates a joint Canara Bank account with her retired Navy husband. She said she primarily operates the account and that her mobile number and her husband’s number were registered with the bank.The complainant said that on September 13, she went to a Canara Bank ATM in Sector 11 along with her daughter-in-law, Shilpa Sharma, to withdraw cash. However, the ATM displayed an “Insufficient Fund” message. She tried another ATM but received the same message. As it was Sunday, she could not immediately approach the bank to find out the reason.The next day, September 14, she visited the bank Sector 11 branch with her daughter-in-law and enquired about the shortage of funds in her account. She was allegedly informed that three UPI transactions had been carried out from her account on September 11.Jyoti told the police that she had not authorised any of these transactions and suspected that an unidentified person had fraudulently gained access to her UPI facility and withdrawn a total of Rs 1.13 lakh from her account.She subsequently lodged complaints through the cyber crime portal on September 14 and 15, seeking action against the unidentified person and recovery of her money.A case under Section 318(4) of the BNS was subsequently registered on Sep 17 at Cyber Crime Police Station, Sector 20.
