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The Economic Offenses Wing of Delhi Police has arrested a fraudster who duped hundreds of people on the pretext of providing them jobs in Prasar Bharati. The accused was identified as Pankaj Gupta, a resident of Kamla Nagar. The accused committed the fraud by creating a fake email ID in the name of Prasar Bharati. The accused absconded with three thousand rupees each from 300 victims.
Police officials said that in January this year, Sarfaraz Ahmed, a resident of Baljit Nagar, and three others lodged a complaint against Pankaj Gupta in the branch for forgery and cheating. The complainants said that they were tricked into getting jobs in Prasar Bharati. The accused took three thousand rupees each from three hundred people in the name of registration and filling the application form and fled. The accused also switched off his phone. Based on the complaint, the Economic Offenses Wing registered the case.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused and his father were suppliers of books to the Prasar Bharati Secretariat, due to which the accused had knowledge of the working of Prasar Bharati. He used the name, logo and email of Prasar Bharati to gain the trust of the victims. The accused created fake email IDs in the name of Prasar Bharati and shared screenshots of these fake emails with the complainants to win their trust.
Police seized a screenshot of an email purportedly sent by accused Pankaj Gupta to the complainants regarding vacancies received from Prasar Bharati. In this regard, the police also received a reply from the Prasar Bharati office in which the Prasar Bharati official denied any vacancies mentioned in the e-mail.
It has also come to the fore during the investigation that the copy of the e-mail purportedly made in the name of Prasar Bharati was fake. Police obtained the bank account details of the accused through which police came to know that the accused received payments from the victims through Paytm, Google Pay, Phone Pay etc. After all the evidence came, the police had increased the surveillance on the accused.