In July 2017, Akbar Sheikh's grandfather sold a shop he owned in Kurla for a considerable chunk of money. Soon after, the elderly man distributed the money between his children. Akbar Sheikh's father, Jaffar Hameed Shaikh, received Ra 2 lakh in two installments from the senior citizen. While Jaffar received the first installment of Ra 1 lakh in July, he got the remaining amount in September. Jaffar made sure to immediately deposit the entire amount in their joint account at Hindustan Co-op Bank. All was fine until a bank transaction on January 7 revealed that only Rs 796.50 was stored in the account. Akbar rushed to the cops who found that a card cloning gang had conned the family of lakhs, over the past four months.