Fraudsters have apparently decided not to let the dead rest in peace, withdrawing money from their bank accounts or claiming their lapsed insurance policies. Two incidents of the former have come to light. One was reported to the Dahisar police on Monday when Akhtari Salim Beg, 62, registered a complaint, stating that someone has transferred Rs 5.89 lakh from her spouse’s bank account. Her husband, who had an account in the Great Bombay Co-Operative Limited Bank in Dahisar East, died on February 22, 2021.
 
As per the complainant’s statement to the police, when she went to the bank to submit her husband’s death certificate to withdraw the amount, the bank manager told her that he needed to produce an affidavit and succession certificate first. The complaint filed an application in the Bombay High Court in this regard. A couple of months later, she received a call from the bank manager about a transaction via NEFT from her husband’s account.

Beg then rushed to the bank along with her son and the bank manager informed her that five to six NEFT transactions had been made. He also provided the details of the transaction, said an officer. According to the manager, two similar incidents had occurred in the branch earlier and the people concerned had lodged complaints at the Dahisar police station.