Man held for duping people to tune of Rs 35 lakh

A person from Faridabad for arrested for duping people to the tune of Rs 35 lakh in 2023. The accused posed as a fake RBI employee.

Rudrapur (Uttarakhand):A man, who allegedly indulged in committing cyber frauds since 2014, was arrested, police said on Thursday. According to police, three mobiles, five SIM cards, six debit cards, and four chequebooks have been recovered from the accused.

Cyber Police Circle Officer Kumaon Sumit Kumar Pandey said Chetanya Kishore, a resident of Bhimtal, was duped to the tune of Rs. 35 lakhs in the name of TDS by posing as a fake RBI employee from January to October. "He approached the police, following which, we probed the matter. We found the accused had used pre-activated mobile SIM cards allotted in the name of other persons," a senior police official said.

"The accused obtained funds, which were deposited in various bank accounts of Morena in Madhya Pradesh and Etawah in Uttar Pradesh. The money from these accounts has been withdrawn from various ATM machines in Noida, Delhi, and Haryana," added the senior police official.

According to the senior police official, the cyber station police team verified the bank accounts and mobile numbers and they were found to be operating on fake IDs.

The police then identified the accused as one Ravi Kant Sharma, a resident of Faridabad, and apprehended him. "During interrogation, the accused informed that he posed as a fake employee of the Reserve Bank of India and cheated people," the senior police official added. It is understood the accused has done his B.Tech in Computer Science.

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