Delhi Police arrests man for duping people amid COVID.
In a significant success in cracking down on cyber fraudsters cheating needy people in the name of COVID-19 assist, Delhi Police Crime Branch has arrested kingpin of the gang for duping gullible public on pretext of offering oxygen cylinders and covid medicines.
A staff of Star-II, Crime Branch has nabbed Deepak Prasad (42 years) son of late Bindeshwari Prasad resident of Sunderpur, Nalanda, Bihar. The accused particular person has admitted to have cheated greater than a lakh rupees from over 300 people since March 2021.
On May 4, a complainant reported that an individual was in excessive want for an oxygen cylinder for his neighbour affected by covid. He discovered a cellular quantity on social media claiming to supply oxygen cylinders.
When the complainant contacted on the given cellular quantity by WhatsApp message, the receiver requested him to pay Rs 7,500 for oxygen cylinder. Complainant made cost to the wrongdoer by Google Pay. He assured the complainant that the cylinder would attain at his handle.
However, no oxygen cylinder ever reached and afterwards, when the complainant tried to contact the accused and made a number of calls on the given cell phone however acquired no reply because the accused had blocked the cellphone quantity of complainant.
In this regard, a case with FIR No. 312/21 below part 420 of the IPC was registered at Police Station Kalkaji, South-East Delhi. Similarly, many extra instances of cheating had been additionally registered in completely different police stations in Delhi, throughout the nation.
The investigation has discovered that over the last two-three months, the gang used greater than 100 cellular SIMs and a number of cellphones to ship messages to harmless public and cheated them.
Crime Branch, by technical evaluation of information collected from varied service suppliers, discovered that the gang was working from Sundarpur, Katri Sarai, District- Nalanda, Bihar.
On May 15, throughout search of an accused home, no less than 18 SIM playing cards and 13 cellphones had been recovered. During interrogation, accused Deepak Prasad disclosed that in 2018, he alongwith his related began cheating harmless people.
The probe discovered that the culprits had been utilizing greater than 7 financial institution accounts for cheating and duped greater than Rs 50 lakhs from over 300 people the nation.
