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The gang of Dungarpur in Rajasthan duped lakhs of rupees by promising to provide escort service to 1000 people across the country in a year. Cyber police station of South district arrested Ashok Patidar (23), Deepak Teli (29), Manish Patidar (19), Raunak Suthar (19) and Vinod Patidar (24) and disclosed the case.
Ashok and Deepak have worked at a shop in Ahmedabad, while Manish is pursuing his graduation. Vinod had lost his job during the Corona period. The accused used to transfer the cheated amount to open bank accounts with fake IDs. Mobile numbers were also taken by the accused on fake IDs.
According to South District Deputy Commissioner of Police Chandan Chowdhary, a South Delhi resident, a consultant in a big company, had given a complaint to the cyber police station in-charge Arun Kumar Verma on April 17 that he had searched the website for escort service.
When he called on a number found on the website, the accused sent him photographs of some girls. After this, he deposited Rs 500 in the bank account given by the accused in the name of registration. The accused extorted Rs 1,48,047 in the name of hotel booking, police verification, car service and other charges. When the person refused to take the escort service and asked for the money back, the accused started asking for more money. Later the accused stopped picking up the calls.
After registering the case, the team of Inspector Hansaram, SI Sanjay Singh, Havaldar Tarun Raghav and Havaldar Sandeep Kumar started the investigation under the supervision of station in-charge Arun Kumar Verma. SI Sanjay Singh’s team along with mobile surveillance investigated the details of the bank accounts in which money was deposited on behalf of the victim. Investigation revealed that the mobile used for cheating is from Udaipur City, Dungarpur. Information taken from Paytm. After about a month of investigation, the team of SI Sanjay Singh and Havildar Tarun Raghav arrested the five accused from Rajasthan on 5th June.
most people didn’t complain
When the details of the fake bank accounts of the accused were scrutinized, it was found that the accused had cheated more than 1000 people across the country. In the name of less money and escort service, most of the people did not complain to the police.