An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) attached to the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) police station was cheated of Rs 94,103 through a fake bank message. The victim, identified as ASI Sachin Chavan, 52, believed a caller who claimed he had mistakenly transferred money into Chavan’s account, only to be duped by a cleverly faked credit SMS.

The incident took place on September 1, when Chavan was near the Asian Heart Hospital, Bandra East. He received a call from an unknown man who said he had wrongly transferred Rs 30,000 into Chavan’s account and urgently needed it back as he was in the hospital.