Anil Bansal has plenty to do on his priority list. Playing Sherlock Holmes is not what he wants or has the time for. However, he had to do just that, play the role of a private investigator, when a Delhi-based hacker carried out transactions worth Rs 68,000 from his wife’s ICICI bank account in two instalments on June 21 and 22.

Bansal approached the police officials at the J P Road Police Station with his application and bank mini statement, who told him that they would look into the issue but the entire process would take some time as they were busy with the Jagannath Rath Yatra on June 24.

“I decided to wait, however, I felt that buying time would only spoil my chances of getting the money back. I went to the bank where they told me that the internet transactions are carried out by facilitators. I found out that there were two facilitators in the June 21 and 22 transactions,” added Bansal.

The two facilitating agencies, Indiaideas.com and CC Avenues, on being told by Bansal that the police had been informed, provided him with the details of the Delhi-based hacker who had decamped with his wife’s entire salary, when she had sought pregnancy leave from her institute in Anand.

“We hardly use this account for Internet transactions. The last time we carried out Internet transactions from this account was when we booked rail tickets with the help of the Internet I-pin provided by the bank. I was shocked to discover that the money had been used for mobile recharging. Altogether there were 14 transactions worth Rs 12,014 ranging from Rs 501 to Rs 1,001.

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