Bengal

XKolkata: Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee has claimed that Rs 57 lakh has been siphoned from his dormant bank account linked to his previous tenure as a West Bengal MLA. Police have started a probe into the incident after a formal complaint was lodged by the bank authorities with the cybercrime section of Kolkata Police, an official said, adding that they were yet to arrest anyone in this regard. "It is quite shocking... The account was opened when I was Asansol South MLA and remained dormant for several years after I became Serampore MP," Banerjee told reporters. They superimposed my photograph and used fake Aadhaar and PAN cards to carry out the criminal activity, he claimed. The miscreants also added a phone number to the account and all the OTPs and transaction details g

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