A call centre employee, who had allegedly hacked the ICICI Bank’s website and illegally withdrawn Rs 1.30 lakh from the account of a Bangalore resident, has finally fallen into the police net.

Cyber crime sleuths from Bangalore picked up Vineet Lomash, 22, from his residence in North-West Delhi on Saturday. They  took him away on transit remand, granted by a court here.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) M C Gupta, while granting the transit remand, directed the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of Cyber Crime police station of Bangalore, Joy D’Souza, to produce him in the court concerned there on November 21.

“It was an online transaction. A  person cannot make such transactions without knowing the hexa PIN code,” the Additional Public Prosecutor said, pleading for his remand. Mr Lomash, working with a Call Centre at Okhla here, had hacked an ICICI bank account of complainant Yogesh Pachisia and fraudulently transferred an amount of Rs 1.31 lakh to his UTI Bank account. The said amount was later withdrawn from his bank’s ATM, the police said. 

The white collar crime was detected after the ICICI Bank account holder, Mr Pachisia, lodged a complaint with the Cyber Crime cell of the Bangalore police on July 28.

Earlier, counsel for the accused Ajay Burman moved Lomash’s  bail application. He said the crime may have been committed by some hacker-other than Lomash — who might have used Lomash’s missing ATM card and withdrawn the money. The court, however, rejected the bail plea.