HDFC Bank mistakenly transfers over Rs. 21 lakhs to a youth's account who has gone untraceable

New Delhi, April 6

The Panchkula Police probing the case of huge money transfer done HDFC bank to a man was found out that the man has been found to be living in the United Kingdom. However, the man has now gone untraceable while the family in India claims that they have disowned him. 

The HDFC Bank, Mansa Devi Complex, sector 5, Panchkula filed a complaint with the police that the person in whose account they had mistakenly transferred Rs 21 lakh was not responding to their repeated queries and intimation. 

The bank told police that the student had a savings and a current account in their bank and it was due to a technical glitch in the server that the money got transferred to his account. the money landed in a student's account who studies in UK while his father works an as engineer with the Himachal Pradesh government. 

The police further stated that when the father was contacted and asked for aiding the probe, he told police that he had disowned his son long back and claimed that he is not in touch with him.

The police are also cross verifying the statements of the father, bank officials and others to know how such a huge sum of money get mistakenly transferred and also the claims of the father where he stated that he disowned the child.

The police have now geared up to approach the Embassy in the UK through the government.