ACCUSED WERE CHEATING INNOCENTS ON THE PRETEXT OF PROVIDING ‘PRADHAN MANTRI MUDRA LOAN’ AT DISCOUNTED RATES., 07 MOBILE PHONES & DOCUMENTS WERE RECOVERED.,ACCUSED MAINLY TARGETED POOR PEOPLE BY INDUCING THEM IN THE NAME OF GOVT. LOAN OFFER AT DISCOUNTED RATE AND CHEATED MORE THAN 150 PEOPLE IN LAST ONE YEAR.
(MOREPIC1)New Delhi (Face2News)
With the arrest of seven accused persons namely, Sandeep Kumar (29) R/o District- Hissar, Haryana, Sumit (32)District- Jind, Haryana, Rakhi R/o Bhalaswa Dairy Age 22 years, Jyoti R/o Ambedkar Nagar Haiderpur Age- 24 years, Jyoti R/o Samaypur Badli Age- 22 years, Manisha R/o Samaypur Badli Age- 20 years and Kajal R/o Samaypur Badli Age- 20 years, Staff of Cyber PS of North-West District busted a fake call center which was cheating innocents on pretext of providing ‘Pradhan Mantri Mudra Loan’ at discounted rates.
Seven mobile phones & documents were recovered from the premises of fake call center. They mainly targeted poor people in the name of govt loan offer at discounted rate and cheated more than 150 innocents in the last one year.
A case vide FIR No. 35/22 U/s 420 IPC, PS Cyber North West was registered on the complaint of Sh. Manish R/o Ambedkar Nagar, Haider Pur, Delhi who alleged that he received a message from one unknown mobile number that he can get Pradhan Mantri (PM) Mudra Loan of Rs. 2 lacs. Thereafter, complainant contacted at the given mobile number wherein the alleged asked copy of documents on whatsApp and Rs. 2499/- as registration fee.(SUBHEAD)
The complainant provided his documents through whatsApp & transferred the requisite amount in given account number. Thereafter, the alleged induced the complainant to transfer Rs. 15,500/- in the name of insurance. Thereafter, alleged informed the complainant that if he does not pay insurance amount, his loan file would be cancelled. Then complainant realized that he has been duped. No loan amount was received by the complainant. The alleged unknown persons cheated innocent people on the pretext of PM Mudra Loan.
In this regard, a case vide FIR No. 35/22 u/s 420 IPC was registered at PS Cyber North-West and investigation was taken up.
Considering the nature of incident and sensitivity of the case, a dedicated team led by Inspr. Vijendra Kumar, SHO/ PS Cyber comprising of SI Vinod Kumar, ASI Roshana Lal, HC Manish, HC Sohan and W/HC Ashu was constituted under the close supervision of ACP/Operations and overall supervision of the undersigned. They were briefed properly & assigned to nab the accused persons involved in this case.
During investigation, an enquiry was conducted into the matter and details from concerned beneficiary bank were obtained and thoroughly scrutinized. Sources were deployed to gather local intelligence. Recce of several locations were conducted to get the clue about accused persons.
Further, on the basis of inputs and collected detailed information, the team raided a location in Sector-17, Rohini area where a call center was found running.
During investigation, 7 mobile phones and documents were recovered from their possession at the spot. The SIM cards and mobile phones which were used to call/cheat the present complainant, are also recovered from their possession.
Ms. Usha Ragnani, IPS, DCP, said, during their sustained interrogation, it was found that accused Sandeep Kumar is the main mastermind and he hired others for running this fake call center. They mainly targeted poor people in the name of govt. loan offer at discounted rate and cheated more than 150 innocents in the last one year.
MODUS OPERANDI: Investigation of case revealed that main accused Sandeep Kumar had been working in a call center as tele-caller since 2 years, where he got the experience and decided to start his own call center. He hired five females as tele-callers on a salary of Rs. 9000/- and one of his relative namely, Sumit on a salary of Rs. 30,000/-. Main accused took a property on a rent of Rs. 19,000/- in Sector-17, Rohini area and started this call-center. They used to send bulk messages on random numbers, with lucrative offers in the name of ‘Pradhan Mantri Mudra Loan’.
They used to collect documents i.e. Aadhar card, PAN card and cancelled cheques of the innocent persons on whatsapp, on the pretext of providing them loans. Thereafter, they used to get the amount transferred in the name of clearance fee, registration fee or taxes.
They mainly targeted poor people in the name of govt. loan offer at discounted rate and cheated more than 150 innocents in the last one year. 07 mobile phones & documents were recovered from the premises of said fake call-center.
Further efforts are being made to trace their possible involvements in other complaints also and their accounts details are further being scrutinized.
The mastermind Sandeep Kumar of Hisar was the main accused, who hired the female girls as telecallers. Further investigation of the case is in progress.
