CUTTACK
: Cyber Cell of Crime branch on Monday arrested seven criminals who had allegedly cheated a man out of Rs 5.5 lakh in an online fraud.
A special team of the crime branch has arrested the seven cyber criminals from Delhi and NCR region and has seized Rs 44 lakh cash,mobile phones, SIM cards, identity proofs, debit and credit cards from their possession.
The accused were identified as Ritesh Singh, Akash Singh, Avinash Kumar Singh, Jaypal Singh, Ramraj Singh Parmar, Pradeep Kumar and
Prem Sankar Biswarkarma
. All the accused are between 20 to 30 years of age.
As per the case details, one Laxmidhar
Hota
, of Tarapur village under
Banki
police limits, had lodged a complaint in March last year alleging that he had received phone call from some persons who had informed him about some insurance schemes and assured good returns. The accused had assured him to provide a maturity amount of Rs 35 lakh
In lieu of providing the scheme, the accused demanded money from Hota and in phases Hota transferred around Rs 5.5 lakh in their accounts. After taking the money, the accused vanished following which Hota had lodged a complaint at the cyber police station here.
“Our special team worked on the case and tracked each of the bank accounts in which complainant had transferred money, and we finally managed to nab the criminals. The gang has trapped many persons in similar manner in differen states,” said Special DG(Crime branch), B K Sharma.
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