Saturday, 12 February 2022 | PNS | Dehradun
Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) along with cyber police have nabbed two accused of a gang from Bihar for allegedly carrying out financial fraud amounting to Rs 25 lakh after the teams recently arrested two accused for fraud from Gujarat. The police informed that a Chamoli resident Madan Singh Pharswan had filed a complaint that he contacted a company for a loan after getting its customer care number from the internet. According to the complainant, a man received the call and asked him to deposit money in different accounts calling them processing fees and other necessary charges in the name of providing a cheap loan. He was scammed of a total of Rs 25 lakh, as per the police. It was revealed during the police investigation that the said money was withdrawn in states like Bihar and West Bengal and the accused had used counterfeit identity cards to get new contact numbers to carry out the scam. Members of the team led by inspector Vikas Bhardwaj were sent to these states for further investigation and the two accused- Navin Kumar and Mantu Kumar were arrested from Bihar. The police informed that the accused used to lure people through several fake contact numbers in Google and used them to get the details of ATM card or send them links or asked to download certain apps posing as bank officers or customer care support members of different famous companies to steal their money. The police have also recovered seven SIM cards and three mobiles from the accused.
The senior superintendent of police (SSP) of STF, Ajai Singh informed that the police will bring the culprits to the state after obtaining a transit remand from the local court in Bihar.
He also appealed to people to contact the banks and companies through their official website rather than calling on random mobile numbers found in search engines.
