Panchkula: A retired Army officer (65) was reportedly duped of Rs50,000 after he received a fake call asking him to pay Rs1 to unlock his Paytm account. Col Nirmal Singh (retd), a resident of Sector 20, told the police that an amount of Rs50,000 was debited from his SBI account without prior authorisation from him. In his complaint, he said, “I received a call from an unknown number stating that my Paytm account had been blocked for verification of KYC. For unlocking, I was asked to pay Rs1 to my Paytm account from my bank account through a debit card. When I transferred Rs1, I realised that Rs49,990 had been debited from my account.” A case was registered under Section 420 of the IPC at the Sector 20 police station. TNS