Transaction worth Rs 20 lakhs done, police raiding in search of mastermind. symbolic
Samvad Sutra, Jagran-Kirawali. Two members of the cyber fraud gang were arrested during a joint operation of police, cyber cell and SOG. In the greed of commission, the accused used to make the bank accounts of their relatives and acquaintances available to cyber criminals.
The incident came to light when Vihari Lal, resident of Garhi Daulat, Kirawali, lodged a police complaint on Sunday. Told that Damodar, son of his maternal uncle and father-in-law, called him and took him into confidence. Damodar said that some money has to come from MNREGA scheme. This requires a bank account.
Being a relative, Vihari Lal gave his account number. After this, the thugs transferred four to five lakh rupees to that account and with the pretext of taking the check book and pass book, withdrew the entire amount. When the bank froze Vihari Lal's account due to suspicious transactions, he realized that he had been cheated. Police registered a case and started investigation.
There are strings attached to Mathura, this is how the game used to be
The police team laid siege to the Runkata-Raibha intersection and caught two accused. The accused include Devesh Rana, resident of Anand Dham Colony, Mathura and Damodar Singh, resident of Jhudavai village of Farh. During interrogation, the main accused Devesh told that gang leaders Ankit and Jeetu alias Jitendra, resident of Mathura, had asked him to arrange accounts for transactions of Rs 18-20 lakh.
For this Devesh made Damodar a pawn. Damodar obtained accounts by lying to his relatives. Cyber fraud money used to come into those accounts, from which the cash was withdrawn and deposited in the kingpin's accounts through a CDS machine located in Krishna Nagar, Mathura. Told that these accounts were displayed in the name of PG in the machine. In return for this work, Devesh and Damodar used to get huge commission.
Accused Devesh told that after the account of a relative was frozen, he was putting pressure and threatening to complain to the police. On Sunday, Devesh and Damodar were going to return the passbook and checkbook of the same relative, when the police caught them.
recovery and police team
Police have recovered Rs 17,650 in cash, car, mobile, passbook and check book from the possession of the arrested accused. Both of them have previous criminal history in Kirawali and Police Station Chiksana, Bharatpur (Rajasthan). The police team included station in-charge Kirawali Neeraj Kumar, cyber surveillance in-charge Saurabh Singh, SOG in-charge Sohanpal Singh, sub-inspector Abhishek Tiwari, Amit Kumar, Shubham Siddh, Sudhanshu Vajpayee, Anuj Kumar, Satish Kumar Solanki, Vishant Rathi, Randhir Singh. Police is conducting raids in search of absconding accused Ankit and Jeetu.
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