Friday, 10 November 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The cyber team of Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) arrested a man Dharmendra Kumar (28) from Rajasthan’s Sikar district late on Wednesday. The accused allegedly worked with his accomplices in Dubai and Pakistan to dupe people with Indian bank accounts under the pretext of converting Riyal into Indian rupee. This case is expected to be a national-level scam. The authorities came to know about this scam when a complainant from Dehradun’s Patelnagar area registered a complaint of financial fraud on June 9 this year, said the deputy superintendent of police of the cyber police station of STF, Ankush Mishra. He said that the accused had asked the complainant about buying land in India by pretending to be a friend of his son living in Canada. The accused duped the complainant by sending fake messages of transferring lakhs of rupees to his accounts. After technical analysis, the accused was found to be associated with Rajasthan following which, a team was sent to various places there and the accused was finally nabbed from Sikar district, said Mishra. The team recovered one mobile phone and three passbooks from the accused. He said that the accused has confessed that many of his accomplices are living in Dubai and Saudi Arabia. They receive Riyals from Indian people working there in the name of converting it into Indian currency and commit fraud amounting to lakhs of rupees by calling the relatives of people working abroad as their friends. They use different bank accounts to keep this cash. The accused used fake SIMs, ID cards and fake accounts to commit this crime, the DSP said. He said that the accused has also confessed to having worked with Pakistani agents to dupe Indians. Further technical analysis has proved that the accused is associated with people in Dubai and Pakistan. The STF is investigating the case, Mishra added.
