Saturday, 04 March 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The cyber crime police of Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) on Friday arrested a man from Delhi for being allegedly involved with a gang that duped a Dehradun woman of Rs 1.30 crore on the pretext of solving issues in her life insurance policy. The STF had also arrested its first accused Manish Pal in the case on February 3 from New Delhi too.
The Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of Cyber Crime, STF, Ankush Mishra said that a Dehradun resident Vinod Kumari Bansal had registered a complaint last year that she was duped by people pretending to be calling from her insurance firm. Some men contacted her through different contact numbers and asked her to share her bank details and demanded some money under the pretext of resolving some issues in his life insurance policy. They also lured her to invest Rs 95.10 lakh in the name of investing the policy amount in a planned manner to get three times the amount as profit, said Mishra. He said that the police registered a complaint against the unknown accused and it was confirmed during the checking that the complainant has been duped of nearly Rs 1.30 crore. The DSP said that the STF started the investigation which revealed that the money duped by the accused was received at a bank account in New Delhi.
The mobile number used by the accused to contact the victim also led the team to Delhi. Following this, Mishra said, a team was sent to Delhi and nabbed the accused Rahul Pandey on Friday along with the mobile used to contact the victim. The DSP said that the STF is still investigating the involvement of more people in this fraud. He also appealed to the citizens to refrain from unauthorised online investments to get quick profits without verifying the authenticity of the company.
