Man took ideas from TV shows to cheat people in Uttar Pradesh, arrested

MEERUT: Meerut police has arrested a 37-year-old man who used to cheat people on the pretext of sending them abroad, promising them jobs. Police recovered three laptops, two printers, five mobile phones, and stamps of 25 different companies.
According to a senior police official, the accused identified as Rajinder Singh, a resident of Ludhiana, recently cheated two families of Kerala on the pretext of sending them to Germany, on November 23 and called them to Meerut to sign documents for visa.He got them accommodation in a city hotel using a fake identity card by the name of Anil.
At night, he mixed sedatives in food and offered the same to the families. As the five people fell unconscious, he robbed them of over Rs 3 lakh.
A case was registered under sections 420 (cheating), 328 (causing hurt by means by poison), 467 (forgery), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), and 471 (Using as genuine a forged document) of IPC in this regard on the basis of a complaint by the five people. Police traced him through his mobile phone, which he left in the hotel after the incident.
SSP, Meerut, Rohit Singh Sajwan said that Meerut police arrested accused Rajinder Singh from Ludhiana. During interrogation, the accused revealed that he committed 35 incidents of cheating and had collected Rs 40 lakh. Heconfessed that after cheating the Kerala families, he fled to Ludhiana in a car.
The SSP said that probe revealed that the accused used to make tall and fake promises in the advertisements, which were given by him in the newspapers, in order that people fell in his trap and he could cheat them. He gathered ideas about methods to cheat on the internet and by watching TV serials based on crime incidents and also on how to avoid arrest.
Singh learned to make fake documents, including Aadhar cards from YouTube.