GANG OF BANK FRAUD CALL CENTRE BUSTED

SOUTH EAST DISTRICT

​ Dated: 21.07.2017

GANG OF BANK FRAUD CALL CENTRE BUSTED

​With the arrest of seven persons, the staff of P.S. Greater Kailash busted a gang of bank fraud call centre. The accused persons cheated a senior citizen worth about 50 lacs on pretext of investment in insurance policies.

BRIEF FACT
​Ms Sangeeta Munjal, daughter of Shri D.R. Ahuja filed a complaint at Police Station Greater Kailash that she is the joint account holder of savings bank accounts along with her father in ICICI Bank, State Bank of India, United Bank of India and Oriental Bank of Commerce. Her father, a senior journalist who is 88 years old, stays alone at his house in Delhi. Her father was unwell recently and when she went to his house to see him, he asked her to deposit a cheque in the bank. She got the summary of account updated and was shocked to see that there have been multiple withdrawals of large amounts from his bank accounts during the last two years. The beneficiaries of these withdrawals were different persons who had defrauded her father. These people posed as representatives of Insurance Companies and promised her father double/triple return for his money. They have been in touch with her father only over the phone. Being old, probably he could not understand the scheme and whenever they used to ask him to deposit the amount; he used to comply and kept issuing cheques in their favour in greed to earn handsome return on his money lying idle in banks. These people have succeeded in duping her father to the tune of more than Rs. 50 lakhs of his hard earned money. On the above complaint, a case vide FIR No. 64/17 Dt. 01-04-2017 U/S 420/120 B IPC was registered at PS Greater Kailash, New Delhi.

INVESTIGATION AND ARREST OF ACCUSED
​Under the leadership of Insp. Dalip Singh, SHO/GK-1 a team consisting of Insp Anil Malik, Inspector investigation, SI Kuldeep, HC Devender, 926/SE, Ct. Mahesh, 1283/SE, Ct Asif, No 3497SE was constituted under overall guidance of Sh. Satish Kain, ACP/Lajpat Nagar to crack the case. During the course of investigation, it was found that the money was transferred in nine accounts situated in different parts such as Noida, Kanpur, Gwalior etc. Some of the accounts were found to be fraud i.e. they were opened at the addresses which did not exist. During investigation & technical surveillance and hard work done by the team, one of the accused namely Gaurav Kumar s/o Jai Kishan R/O Trilokpuri, Delhi was arrested. Gaurav Kumar disclosed that his account was being used by another person Ankur Gautam. Hence Ankur Gautam S/o BalKishan R/o Vidya Nagar, Harthala, Civil Line, Moradabad, UP was arrested from his rented house i.e. from Pandav Nagar, Delhi. Another accused Shivam Chauhan who received huge cheated amount was also arrested in the present case.

​During further investigation and technical surveillance, on 18-07-2017 Pravesh Kasana, owner of the Call Centre from where the complainant received the telephonic calls was arrested along with other accused Hukam Singh S/o Khusal Singh R/o Village Chaud, Distt. Chamoli, Uttrakhand, accused Lalit Kumar S/o Dharamvir Singh R/o, Rajiv Garden, Loni, Ghaziabad, UP and accused Pradeep S/o Devender R/o Banthala, Loni, Ghaziabad, UP. Further, the account details of the accused persons, their mobile calls are being analyzed to know as to how many people have been cheated and the total amount cheated by same modus operandi.

MODUS OPERANDI

Accused Pravesh Kasana R/o VPO. Ristal, Loni, Ghaziabad, UP disclosed that he along with his friends Gaurav, Pradeep etc. were running a racket through which they used to cheat innocent people on the pretext of insurance bonus, holiday packages etc. and cheated them.

Accused Pravesh Kasana is the master mind of this case and is owner of the call centre. He has employed young boys and girls in his call centre. They have been given data by Pravesh Kasana of the affluent account holders and they were asked to make calls to the innocent persons misleading them that their amount will be doubled within a short span by investing in a particular insurance, bond etc.

Accused persons were produced before the Hon’ble court and sent to Judicial Custody. Accused Pravesh Kasana is in P/C remand.

RECOVERY
1. Seven Tata Walky Talkies
2. Two Laptops
3. Twelve mobile phones
4. Rough registers and SIM Cards used in the crime.

Further investigation of the case is in progress.

(ROMIL BAANIYA) IPS
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
SOUTH EAST DISTRICT, DELHI

 

Source: Delhi Police (PR Cell)

Author: sarkarimirror