Chandigarh: 5 people cheated Chandigarh residents of Rs 2.6 lakh, land also surrounded by police

Police have arrested five accused in two cases of fraud of Rs 2.58 lakh. The accused were identified as Sunny (26) of Muradnagar (UP), Tarun Kumar Sawat (29) of Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Atar Singh alias Krishna Kushwaha (34) and Saktar Ansari (31) of Datia (MP). Rahmat Ansari (28), both from Jharkhand. Earlier, Sector 20 resident Mansoor Ali had alleged that his wife was going to go to New York for a month from November 17. They started looking for an apartment and found a website called Zillow Properties. He deposited Rs 1.33 lakh in various transactions in the name of registration, document verification, police clearance etc. However, there was no apartment at the address given to him in America. During investigation, Sunny was arrested from Ghaziabad. He revealed that he deals in crypto currency. Two more accused Tarun and Atar Singh were arrested from Raipur. The latter revealed that they were in contact with a US citizen through WhatsApp. They bought US dollars and sent them back and kept 10 percent for each transaction.