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West District Cyber Cell has arrested brother-in-law who cheated people. The accused used to cheat such people who rarely use the mobile number linked to the bank account. Police have recovered a SIM card and iPhone 14 bought with the cheated money from their possession. They have been identified as Sunny Madan and his brother-in-law Deepak.
Siddharth Anand, Harinagar-based cyber cell, complained of cheating. He told that he had his credit and debit cards with him, but Rs 73,000 was withdrawn from his account. On getting information from the bank, it was found that someone has taken a loan of Rs 96,000 in his name. Also spent Rs 4800 through credit card. On the complaint, the police started investigating the matter. The police obtained the IMEI number and bank account details of the phone. It came to know that the iPhone was bought with the money. Through that iPhone, the police arrested both the accused from Bindapur and Uttam Nagar after conducting a technical investigation.
During interrogation, the accused revealed that they used to identify such mobile numbers through Instacred application, which are linked to the bank account, but are rarely used by the customer. After this, they used to get the SIM cards of those numbers removed from the tele companies with fake IDs. After getting the SIM card, the accused used to make purchases along with withdrawing money from the credit and debit cards and accounts linked to that number. After committing the fraud, he used to throw away the SIM card. The police officer said that two cases of forgery were already registered against the accused Sunny Madan.