HUGE RECOVERY OF MOBILE PHONES, SIM CARDS, DEBIT/CREDIT CARDS AND INCRIMINATING DOCUMENTS. CYBER POLICE STATION NORTH ARRESTED 3 ACCUSED TRACKED ON THE BASIS OF A HIGHLY TECHNICAL INVESTIGATION INCLUDING MONEY TRAIL OF THE CHEATED AMOUNT. ACCUSED INDUCED THE VICTIM BY OFFERING LOANS ON LOW INTEREST RATES AGAINST NEWLY PURCHASED INSURANCE POLICY WHICH WAS ALSO SOLD BY THEM TO THE VICTIM.. FOR SANCTIONING FICTITIOUS LOAN AGAINST ISSUED INSURANCE POLICY, ACCUSED PERSONS CHEATED THE VICTIM ON THE PRETEXT OF PROCESSING FEE AND VARIOUS OTHER CHARGES. TOTAL 188 MOBILE PHONES, 130 SIM CARDS, 03 LAPTOPS, 01 i-20 CAR, 01 JUPITER SCOOTY, 16 CREDIT/DEBIT CARDS, 12 EMPLOYEE I-CARDS, 6 CHEQUE-BOOKS, 5 PASSBOOKS, REGISTERS/DOCUMENTS OF CALL CENTRE RECOVERED.
Face2News/New Delhi
A complaint was received at Cyber Police Station through National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) alleging therein that he is a resident of Bihar and staying with his relatives in Delhi for the last 3 years. In July 2020 due to Corona pandemic, he was going through some financial crisis and applied for loan through xxxxxxx.com, after which he started receiving calls from several unknown mobile numbers and the callers impersonating as officers of HDB Finance Company.
The complainant was offered loan as per his financial requirement but with the condition that he had to purchase insurance policy for sanctioning fictitious loan against insured policy. After issuance of insurance policy, the complainant was induced to transfer money on the pretext of various charges for sanctioning loan amount and thus duped the complainant of Rs. 14 lakhs No loan was disbursed to the complainant. Subsequently a case vide FIR No. 135/22 IPC dated 22/12/2022 U/s 420/34 IPC & 66 D IT Act was registered at PS Cyber North and investigation into the same was taken up.
As per the direction of Senior Officers, A team of PS Cyber North led by Insp. Sandeep Shrivastava comprising W/SI Richa Sharma, HC Pankaj, HC Umesh, HC Bijender, W/HC Seema, HC Sudhir and Ct. Jatin, was constituted under the supervision of Inspector Pawan Tomar, SHO/Cyber North and overall guidance of Sh. Dharmender Kumar, ACP/Operations/North District.
Mr. Sagar Singh Kalsi, IPS, DCP, North Distt., said, during investigation of this case, a two-pronged strategy was adopted. One dedicated team was deployed to trace the money trail jumped through various accounts and wallets while another team was tasked to conduct a technical investigation through available mobile numbers. The efforts of both the teams led to location of accused persons somewhere in Ghaziabad, Faridabad and in North-East Delhi. Further technical investigation coupled with on ground local enquiry successfully zeroed on the accused persons. (SUBHEAD)
On the basis of investigation, simultaneous raids were conducted at locations of accused persons in Delhi and NCR on 26/12/2022 and accused persons namely Mohit Sharma @ Purshottam Das Gupta @ Piyush Arora was arrested from his hideout and one i-20 Car, one laptop, 05 Mobile phones, various passbooks, cheque-books and Debit/Credit cards were recovered on his instance. He further led the team to his associate namely Prem Singh @ Rakesh Kumar at Faridabad, Haryana and one Laptop, 03 mobile phones, various passbooks, cheque-books and Debit/Credit cards were also recovered on his instance. On sustained interrogation, both the accused persons disclosed that they were earlier associated with prime accused namely Md. Faisal residing in Seelampur, Delhi.
Thereafter, on the basis of information provided by arrested accused persons, another raid was conducted in the area of Sec-59, Noida on 27/12/2022 and prime accused Md. Faisal @ Sagar Rastogi @ Rahul Khanna S/o Sh. Sh. Farooq Ali Chaman r/o New Delhi-53, age-37 years was arrested while he was coming out from his office located at Sec-59, Noida (UP). His arrest led to the recovery of 06 Mobile phones, various passbooks, cheque-books and Debit/Credit cards. He was also taken on police custody remand.
On sustained interrogation of accused Md. Faisal, it was revealed that he along with accused Mohit Sharma had been working at an established call centre by the name of Hexar Insurance Private Ltd., Sector 59, Noida (UP)which is a Call Centre for offering insurance policies of various big insurance companies viz Max, Birla Sunlife etc. On analysis of mobile phones of accused persons, it was revealed that tele-callers were also making calls through keypad mobile phones besides fixed calling lines to make fraud calls and trap the victims. Subsequently, the police team reached at the Call Centre and seized170 mobile phones from the lockers and other hidden places. Some registers and other incriminating documents suspected to have records of victims were also recovered.
The data of recovered phones are being analysed and floor managers and owner of call centre are being investigated so as to find their role in the offence.
KNOW THE ACCUSED: Mohit Sharma @ Purshottam Das Gupta @ Piyush Arora S/o Sh. Chander Shekhar Sharma r/o Noida, UP, Permanent address Distt Palwal, HR, Age-31 yrs. Prem Singh @ Rakesh Kumar S/o Sh. Hari Singh r/o Faridabad, HR, Age-33 yrs. Mohd. Faisal @ Sagar Rastogi @ Rahul Khanna S/o Sh. Sh. Farooq Ali Chaman r/o New Delhi, Age-37 yrs
RECOVERY: 188 MOBILE PHONES, 130 SIM CARDS., 3 LAPTOPS., 1 I-20 CAR., 1 JUPITER SCOOTY.
16 CREDIT/DEBIT CARDS., 2 EMPLOYEE I-CARDS., 6 CHEQUE-BOOKS OF DIFFERENT BANK ACCOUNTS, . 05 BANK PASSBOOKS, REGISTERS/DOCUMENTS AND OTHER RECORDS
Further investigation of the case is in progress.
