The Delhi police claimed to have busted an online cheating racket with the arrest of four men who allegedly lured people to deposit money in a fake bank account by promising them lottery money and LIC
The Delhi police claimed to have busted an online cheating racket with the arrest of four men who allegedly lured people to deposit money in a fake bank account by promising them lottery money and LIC bonus points.
The accused, identified as Miraz Alam, Shatrughan Ojha, Jamal and Anees, were arrested from a rented house in Sukhdev Nagar, Kotla Mubarakpur, on Thursday. The accused confessed that during last eight months they had cheated more than Rs 2.5 crores from their victims. The police had been monitoring crimes in which the money was transferred and withdrawn by criminals in a fraudulent manner. Acting on a complaint of online fraud, a police team investigated the matter. “All accused were traced from a bank account in Govindpuri. On the basis of a photograph procured from the bank form, they were traced to a rented house in Sukhdev Nagar, Kotla Mubarakpur. The police team immediately apprehended all of them from the flat,” said a senior police official.
During a search, 11 fake voter ID cards, 13 PAN cards, 13 ATM cards, 17 cheque books, 15 passbooks, 14 mobile phones and 6 SIM cards were recovered from their possession.
One of the accused, Miraz Alam, disclosed during investigation that he had come in contact with the mastermind of the racket, Raju, and his two associates Sameer and Vicky in Mumbai last year. He used to provide details of bank accounts to Raju, who runs a call centre in Mumbai.
“Raju and his associates used to call up people on their mobile phones and induce them, on the pretext of winning lakhs of rupees in a lucky draw or lottery or LIC bonus points, to deposit money in their accounts. They induced people to deposit a certain amount in their bank account as service charge for release of money which they had won and they repeatedly asked them to deposit amount on one or the other pretext till that person stopped depositing cash after sensing something suspicious,” said the police official.
