5 Fraudsters arrested for setting up fake Ram Temple donation website

The Uttar Pradesh Police's cyber division caught a gang that had built a bogus website in the name of Ramjanmabhoomi Trust and deceived unsuspecting people out of lakhs of rupees in a major crackdown.

A joint team of the Noida Cyber police station and the Lucknow Cyber Crime headquarters apprehended the suspects, according to a statement.

The police said, “They duped donors of lakhs of rupees. They did not breach the trust of people who made donations but also floated a website illegally for con job.”

The accused set up a website in the name of Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Trust Ayodhya and posted bank account details on it for donors who volunteered to donate to the Ayodhya Ram Temple.

New Delhi residents Ashish Gupta, Naveen Kumar, Sumit Kumar, Amit Jha, and Suraj Gupta were detained at GB Nagar. They were also found to have five mobile phones, SIM cards, one laptop and about 50 photocopies of Aadhaar cards, among other things.

Officials confirmed that three of them were from Uttar Pradesh's Amethi area and two from Bihar's Sitamarhi, but they were all living at New Ashok Nagar in East Delhi, near Noida.

Mishra said that a replica of the original website had been built, complete with a QR code for monetary donations. Tejveer Singh was the one who registered the code. Last month, the investigation was moved to the UP Police's cyber cell.