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Woman broker held for marrying off Hyd girl to Omanese beggar

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Press Trust of India Hyderabad
Last Updated : Jan 11 2016 | 11:32 PM IST
A woman was today arrested for allegedly facilitating marriage of a 28-year-old to a 'rich' Arab 'shaikh' from Oman who turned out to be a beggar, police said.
"The broker, identified as Sajida Begum, claimed before the victim's parents that the shaikh is a rich person and made them to believe that after marriage she can seek an employment in a Gulf country. Accordingly, the marriage was performed in August last year," stated a release from Hyderabad Police.
However, the woman who went to Oman with her husband later found that he was a beggar, and informed her parents in Hyderabad.
"The issue was brought to the notice of the police by the victim's father in November last year and a cheating case was registered. The accused woman broker was arrested during the course of investigation," it stated.
He said once the request was made and after the account
holder (mostly the same person) accepted it, it went to the bank, which sent message to InfraSoft of "insufficient balance".

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However, InfraSoft, while sending message to NPCI, sent two messages as "successful, proceed" and "error : insufficient balance".
The NPCI software read the first message which was "successful, proceed" and automatically cleared the amount from the bank's pool account.
The official added that in 48 days (the fraud period), all these people did 672 transactions as there is a limit of Rs 1 lakh per day.
"It seems that the suspected fraudsters recognised the lacuna in the UPI application and took advantage of that," he said.
Now, all these people who fraudulently received the money have switched off their phones, but they are being traced.
"They also transferred the money through RTGS to their different accounts, which shows that they had malafide intention and we are pretty sure that InfraSoft is at fault and have summoned their officials," he said.
The officer said that it seems the primary glitch in the application was at InfraSoft's end as when "insufficient" fund message was sent to them, the application should not have sent "successful" message to NPCI.
When contacted, Rajkiran Bhoir, General Manager at the Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) said that the lacuna has been cleared and the system is now safe.

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First Published: Jan 11 2016 | 11:32 PM IST

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