 Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 14: The Crime Branch Jammu has busted an interstate online fraudsters gang. Around 22 lakhs have been recovered and seven persons have been held.
Besides this particular case, Crime Branch is also investigating the 30 more cyber crime related complaints.
The arrested have been identified as Chander Shekhar Kandpal, resident of Jaipur, Rajasthan, Shiv Kumar, resident of Noida, UP, Anil Kumar, of Delhi, Arun Dass, of New Delhi, Rajeev Tanwar, resident of Delhi, Sachin Bhardwaj, resident of Delhi and Pushkar Chaudhary, resident of Haryana. Sr Superintendent of Police (SSP) Crime Branch, Mubassir Latifi, told reporters here this afternoon that one Vijay Kumar R/o Luxmi Vihar, Kathua lodged a complaint that he has been cheated by a private insurance Company under the name Kotak Life Insurance Policy.
"As per complainant, he bought the policy in 2009 and paid the premiums till 2012," SSP Crime Branch said, adding, "in 2013 he received a call from one Rahul Aggarwal, who claimed to an agent of Kotak Life Insurance Company and who asked the complainant to deposit an amount of Rs 40,310/- for reviving the policy in the account of Money Back Tour and also provide him copy of his PAN Card, as the policy had lapsed somewhere in 2012." SSP Crime Brach Latiffi said, "The complaint deposited the said amount but after some days he was again asked to deposit some more money in different account numbers which were provided by the unknown callers and in the process the complainant deposited Rs 15.00 lakhs through nine bank transactions but the money promised to him was not returned. "However in January, 2015 he again received a call from one Deepak Singhal, who claimed to be an officer of IRDA, who also asked the complainant to deposit more money on account of taxes, lawyer fees etc and assured him repayment of his money upon which the complainant again deposited an amount of Rs 22,67,650/- through eleven transactions but again his money was not paid and thereafter, realizing the realities of being cheated by these fraudsters he approached the Crime Branch, Jammu.
The Crime Branch team conducted raids on a complaint and arrested 7 persons from different states while so far Rs 15 lakh has been recovered from them.
"On preliminary questioning of the arrested persons it has been found that these fraudsters belong to New Delhi, Noida, Bihar, Uttarkhand and Rajasthan area but were working in close coordination with each other, he said, adding they have sim cards and bank accounts on fake names.
Some of the account heads/names and numbers which have surfaced are Money Back Club A/c No. 50200008183295 HDFC Bank, New Delhi, Money Back Tour and Travels A/c No. 914020033747174 UTI, Money Back Tour and Travels A/c No. 50200009292694 HDFC Bank, Sharad Kumar Sharma A/c No. 3441851629 CBIN Mayur Vihar Delhi, Sharad Kumar Sharma A/c No. 501000094649410 HDFC Mayur Vihar Delhi, Sharad Kumar Sharma A/c No. 053200101055352 Corporation Bank, Preet Vihar, Delhi, We Care A/c No. 50261229316 Allahbad Bank, We Care A/c No. 0831050 01047 ICICI Bank, Aegon A/c No. 3427908450 Central Bank of India, Noida, Aegon A/c No. 64168784577 State Bank of Mysore, Noida, Aegon A/c No. 914020057293000 UTI Mayur Vihar, Delhi, A&K Global Solutions A/c No. 5020 0003707514 HDFC Bank, Noida, Raj Kumar Sharma A/c No.5020000 8047563 HDFC and Raj Kumar Sharma A/c No.50200008 04758 HDFC, Mayur Vihar, he said, adding if any more victim who had deposited money in any one of account can lodge complaint.
SSP Crime Branch, Jammu however have appealed to the people not to divulge personal details to unknown callers. |
