Two arrested from Rajasthan and Uttarakhand in online fraud
New Delhi (IANS) | The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has busted a gang of cyber fraudsters, who duped people in the name of hotel bookings through fake websites, by arresting two persons from Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. The accused have been identified as Devo Singh (22), a resident of Bharatpur in Rajasthan and Man Singh alias Mangat (24), a resident of Udham Singh Nagar in Uttarakhand.
According to the police, a complaint was received from Ambika Prasad Sharma, a resident of Dilshad Garden, that in October 2022 he wanted to visit the Dwarkadhish temple in Gujarat.
Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Singh Yadav said that Ambika searched hotels for accommodation and found online details of a hotel – Kokila Dheeraj Dham, Dwarka, Gujarat, along with a mobile number. The complainant contacted the said mobile number and one Nirmal introduced himself as the manager of the hotel. The person cheated the complainant and took Rs.1,03,102.
During investigation, the police team interrogated two beneficiary account holders Jagjit and Shivam, they told that their bank accounts were opened by Man Singh.
Man Singh was arrested, Yadav said, who disclosed that he had opened bank accounts of poor and illiterate people. He then sold these accounts including ATM cards, passbooks and check books to cyber thugs for Rs 10,000 per bank account.
To trace the cyber fraud, the police team obtained details of 10 additional bank accounts and analyzed over 40 CCTV footages of various ATMs.
Yadav said, after technical analysis, it was found that the fraudsters used to withdraw cash from various ATMs in Jaipur, Rajasthan. In the footage of the ATM, two persons were seen fraudulently withdrawing the amount.
Subsequently, Devo Singh was identified and arrested from Jaipur, the Special CP said. During interrogation, he disclosed that on the instructions of a person named Khushi Ram, he used to withdraw cash from various ATMs. He had withdrawn around Rs 10 lakh from different ATMs within 10 days.
–IANS
