Monday, 26 June 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) nabbed a Delhi based interstate cyber fraud on charges of duping a super senior citizen of Dehradun in the name of processing his insurance policy. The accused Ajit Kumar (40) reportedly duped the 82- year-old man from Dehradun of Rs 43 lakh by claiming to be an Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) official. He is a member of a Delhi-NCR-based interstate cyber-fraud gang that has also reportedly duped a man in Ambala of Rs five crore, said the senior superintendent of police, STF, Ayush Agrawal.
He said that the accused was arrested after getting information via the bank account number to which the duped money was transferred. He said, “The investigation revealed that it was a Delhi account. Based on this and other electronic evidence, we traced him to east Delhi from where he was arrested late on Friday night. He has confessed to a similar fraud in Ambala, in which the gang duped a person of Rs five crore.” He said that the gang has duped people in more than six other states including Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Bihar, Rajasthan , Gujarat and Telangana.
It was also revealed in the investigation that the accused had opened at least 150 bank accounts to commit such crimes using documents of people from poor financial backgrounds. “He was using the accounts to receive the money transferred after duping people of several states. In lieu of that, he used to give Rs 10,000 per month to 150 people,” said the SSP. He said that the STF is working to nab the other members of the gang too.
