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Cyber police station of Shahdara district has arrested three miscreants of the gang who cheated in the name of providing loan at very low interest rate in Delhi. The arrested accused have been identified as Hitesh Kumar alias Akash Sharma, resident of Sarai Tarin, Hayat Nagar, Sambhal, UP, Gautam and Satyaveer Singh Yadav alias Suraj, resident of Saidpur, Izzat Nagar, Bareilly, UP. Police have recovered 225 SIM cards, 21 mobile phones, four bank cards and three swipe machines used in the crime from the accused. Among the arrested accused, Hitesh Kumar is a B.Tech engineer while Gautam is an M.Ed. His other accomplices Chandan alias Chandela and Rupesh Tyagi used to run fake call centers in Dwarka Mod area.
These people have cheated more than one crore during the last one year. The police is probing the matter by interrogating the arrested accused. Police is looking for Chandan alias Chandela, Rupesh Tyagi, Ankit Tiwari, Sanjay Yadav and many others in the case. These people had duped a Vishwas Nagar businessman of more than 26 lakhs last year.
Shahdara District Deputy Commissioner of Police Rohit Meena said that last year Deepak Aggarwal, a resident of Vishwas Nagar, had given a complaint of cheating to the cyber police station. The victim told that he had seen an advertisement through social media. It was claimed that the loan would be provided at a very low interest rate. Deepak fell in their trap. 26 lakh rupees were gradually extorted from Deepak in different heads. Last year itself, on the complaint of the victim, a case was registered and investigation was started. During investigation, the police identified the three accused with the help of technical surveillance and WhatsApp chatting. Later the accused Gautam, Satyaveer and Hitesh were arrested. During interrogation, these people confessed their crime.
Police recovered a large quantity of SIM cards, 21 mobiles, three machines for swiping bank cards and other items from them. The accused told that these people cheated along with Chandan alias Chandela, Rupesh, Ankit Tiwari, Sanjay Yadav and others. Rupesh and Hitesh used to provide SIM cards and bank accounts for cheating.
Satyaveer used to arrange for the mobile phone. Apart from this, Gautam used to withdraw the amount after transferring the cheated amount to other fake accounts. Later, after keeping his share, he used to send the remaining amount to other members. Chandan and Rupesh used to run their own call center in Dwarka Mod area. The police are suspecting that these people duped hundreds of people in the same way. The amount from which persons were cheated by the accused and the amount is being probed. Due to the investigation of their accounts, fraud of more than one crore amount has been detected last year. Police is interrogating all the three accused and trying to find out their other accomplices.