Team PS-Cyber Cell of the North East District arrests Members of Cheat Gang, accused of cheating innocents off their money

In a major development, the Team PS Cyber Cell of the North East District, New Delhi arrested the members of the Cheat Gang, who fraudulently transferred money from the ATM Cards and cheated on innocent people in the name of seeking help from them inside the ATM Booths. The accused has been identified as Firoz Khan.

According to Sanjay Kumar Sain, Dy. Commissioner of Police, North-East District, New Delhi, “ A complaint was received at Cyber Cell Police Station/Jyoti Nagar vide which the complainant Ms. Doli stated that on the 20th of April, 2022 at around 10:18 AM while she was trying to withdraw money from the ATM Machine in the area of New Usmanpur, 2-3 person entered from behind and on the pretext of helping they swiped her card with some other and vanished from the spot. Later in the evening, she received the message that Rs. 61000/- had been transferred from her bank account through her said card. Accordingly, her complaint was registered and an investigation was taken up.

A police team comprising SI Mohit and Const. Vivek under the supervision of SHO/CCPS/NE during investigation found that the said amount had been transferred to a Kotak Mahindra Bank Account in the name of Shahrukh at Yamuna Vihar Branch.

On further investigation, the account was found to be opened in a fake name however other regular transactions were there. A mobile no. connected with the bank account as the registered mobile number was tracked and verified from which it was established that the mobile number was in the name of some other person.

Through technical surveillance, the location of the said mobile number was zeroed-in, further, on the basis of local intelligence a raid was conducted and a person namely Firoj was apprehended from the area of Behta Hazipur, Loni (UP). One mobile phone and SIM card used in transferring the cheated mount were recovered from his possession.

During the course of the investigation, he confessed to his crime and revealed his multiple involvements in cheating cases. Through the mobile banking app of Kotak Mahindra Bank, he opened a bank account at Yamuna Vihar Branch in which documents were used in the name of Shahrukh but the registered mobile number was of Firoj. On the basis of this account, they applied for a commercial account of PayTM and applied for a card swipe machine. All the cheated cards were being swiped through this machine for the transfer of funds. After receiving funds they further transferred the amount to other bank accounts.

He further confessed to transferring even more fraudulent amounts and his indulgence in such cases. Sincere efforts to nab other members of the gang and verification of the other bank accounts in which the cheated amount had been transferred are on. Further investigation into the case is in progress.