Faridabad15 minutes ago
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Faridabad. Accused Abhishek has already gone to jail twice in the fraud case. After remand, all the three accused were sent to jail.
Police have arrested three cyber thugs, exposing the gang who cheated people in the name of insurance policy. He has cheated people of about 60 lakh rupees by carrying out 40 incidents in 6 months in NCR. The names of these accused are Abhishek, Amit and Rajendra. While Praveen, the fourth accused of the gang, is absconding. Police is searching for him.
According to the Cyber Police, the accused were produced in the court and taken on 6-day police remand. During interrogation, it came to light that Praveen, the fourth accused of the gang, used to buy the data of policy holders from somewhere. After this, it sees that the validity of which policy is about to expire and which policy installment is due. Which policy has been suspended? On the basis of this information, they then used to implicate the policy holders. According to the cyber police station, after having all the information, the accused would call the policy holders. They would fraudulently get money from their bank accounts in the name of renewing the insurance policy and getting cashback on it or getting the policy installments due to be revived. After the money came to the bank, the accused used to switch off his mobile number and withdraw all the money through ATM.
Manoj, a resident of Sector-62 of Faridabad, who was a victim of fraud, told in the complaint given to the police that the accused took Rs 60,500 from him on a bluff. On his complaint, a case was registered at the Cyber Crime Police Station and investigation was started. Taking cognizance in this matter, Police Commissioner OP Singh gave instructions to nab the accused soon. After this, a team was formed under the leadership of Inspector Basant Kumar, in-charge of Cyber Crime Station. He arrested three accused from NCR.
All the police stations were informed about the incidents.
The mobile phone, SIM card and Rs 50,000 used in the crime have been recovered from the possession of the accused. In the bank accounts of the accused, fraudulent transactions worth about Rs 60 lakh have been found in 6 months. During interrogation, it came to light that the accused Abhishek has gone to jail twice in the fraud case. The accused have carried out about 40 incidents in NCR. All the concerned police stations were informed about these incidents. After remand, the accused were produced in the court and sent to jail. Police are engaged to arrest the fourth member of the gang.