The Delhi police has arrested a man accused of cheating people along with his wife by creating fake websites of government departments on the pretext of calling tenders.
The accused has been identified as Tarun Gupta, a resident of Agra. The police has recovered an amount of money of Rs 8 lakh from his possession.
According to the police, on March 3, a complaint was filed by the CEO of Infotech Systems at Saket police station, alleging that he had received an email from an ID, ostensibly of the ministry of small-scale industries, about an offer to participate in the tender published on their website calling for a national-level tender on behalf of the ministry of skill development for an estimated value of Rs 100 crores.
Believing the email, the complainant deposited Rs 9.72 lakh as earnest money deposit (EMD) in different bank accounts. Later, all the three phone numbers mentioned in the documents were found switched off.
The tender amount of Rs 9.72 lakh was sent by the complainant and received at the address Skill Development Mentoring Services in Nehru Place. After receiving the EMD and tender documents, the officials pretending to be from the skill development ministry kept on postponing the tender opening for a month on the pretext that senior officials of the ministry were busy. Suspecting that something was wrong, the complainant called up the officers of the ministry of skill development and learnt that no such tendering process was in progress.
The police formed a team to nab the culprits which found that Amrit Sabarwal was the alias used by Mr Gupta while Tina Majumdar was the fake name taken on by his wife.
“An analysis of the bank account numbers provided by the accused revealed that Mr Gupta had bought a car from Vaishali in Ghaziabad with the money he had collected, making the payment for the vehicle online. Thereafter, the police team located Gupta in Agra,” a senior police officer said.
