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Crime Branch of Delhi Police has arrested fraudster Dhankesh. Accused Dhankesh cheated Rs 13 crore by selling the same property to two people. He was working as a property dealer in Delhi-NCR for 10 years. The court had declared him a fugitive.
Accused Dhankesh has obtained LLB degree from Chaudhary Charan Singh (CSS) University, Meerut. The police is conducting raids to arrest his absconding accomplice. Property dealer Ashok Kumar, resident of Sector-9, A-3, Gautam Buddha Nagar, had complained that he had contacted people named Dhankesh and Ajit to buy 200 yards of property in Green Park, New Delhi. The deal was finalized for Rs 8.50 crore. After this he paid two crores to both of them in different ways. Later it was revealed that the said property had already been sold to some other party and Rs 11 crore had been taken from the party.
A case was registered at Safdarjung Enclave police station. The team of SI Ravi Saini, SI Pradeep Dahiya, ASI Ashok and others led by ACP Narendra Singh and Inspector Sandeep Swami posted in the crime branch were also deployed in the investigation. During investigation, SI Ravi Saini got information that Dhankesh, wanted and absconding in a fraud case at Safdarjung Enclave police station, would come near Karnal Bypass to meet someone. The police team laid siege near Karnal bypass and arrested Dhankesh, resident of Malviya Nagar. The police is conducting raids to arrest his absconding associate Ajit.
Cheated by posing as Supreme Court lawyer
Cyber Station Police of South District has arrested Prateek Dahiya, an accused who cheated by posing as a Supreme Court lawyer. He had opened a law firm and maintained a website. The accused was extorting huge amounts of money from people in the name of opening frozen bank accounts.
He has cheated more than 150 people across North India. Accused Prateek was doing law from National Law Institute University, Bhopal, but had left his studies midway. On its investigation, 1 mobile, 4 debit cards, 1 Aadhar card and 1 SIM card used in the crime have been recovered. South District Police Deputy Commissioner Chandan Chaudhary said that the victim, a resident of Hauz Khas, had complained to the police that his bank account was blocked from the NCRP portal due to business transactions.
The complainant found a number on the website to resolve the matter. He was calling himself a Supreme Court lawyer and claimed to have good relations with police departments across India. The accused also sent the victim a fake screenshot of a fake email sent by the official government email ID of South Delhi Cyber Police Station.
After registering the case, the team of SI Guman Singh, SI Ankit Sharma, Havildar Surendra and Harendra Kumar started investigation under the supervision of cyber station in-charge Arun Kumar Verma. The police scrutinized the details of those bank accounts in which the defrauded money had gone. On taking details from NCRP portal and local police stations, it was revealed that the accused is preying on individuals whose accounts have been blocked from law agencies across India. When SI Ankit’s team obtained the details of the fake website, it was found that the accused person was using the names of different advocates on the website.