14 fraudsters arrested for online fraud worth crores across the country

Raipur. The applicant, resident of Sanjay Nagar, Raipur, lodged a report in Tikrapara police station that she has retired from the post of Deputy General Manager from the Electricity Department. Since the year 2016, persons named Ram Kishan Verma and Puneet Joshi have continuously committed fraud by calling the mobile phones of the applicants from different mobile numbers. In which the applicant was deceived that she would get good benefits by getting a new insurance policy on the basis of her old insurance policy and at the time of retirement, the applicant would get the money from all the policies together. Thereafter, fake documents were prepared by two persons in the name of Ram Kishan Verma and Puneet Joshi (fictitious names) on the basis of the old insurance policy of the applicant.
By repeatedly calling the applicant through mobile phone, he was tricked into depositing approximately Rs. 70 lakh rupees from the applicant on different dates and in different installments from 12.01.2017 by providing a total of 05 bank accounts and deposited the said amount from it. Was done. After time passed, when the applicant asked for payment of the insurance policy, Ram Kishan Verma and Punit Joshi switched off their mobile numbers, then the applicant realized that she had become a victim of fraud in the name of insurance policy. On the report of the above incident by the applicant, crime number 75/24 section 420, 467, 468, 34 IPC was registered against the accused in Tikrapara police station. The crime of was registered.
Taking the incident seriously, Superintendent of Police Mr. Santosh Singh, Additional Superintendent of Police West Mr. Jai Prakash Carpenter, Additional Superintendent of Police Crime Mr. Pitambar Singh Patel, City Superintendent of Police Purani Basti Mr. Rajesh Chaudhary, Deputy Superintendent of Police Crime Mr. Dinesh Sinha, Station Incharge Tikrapara and in-charge Anti Crime and Cyber Unit were directed to trace and arrest the unknown accused as soon as possible. On which, under the direction of senior officers, the joint team of Anti-Crime and Cyber Unit and Tikrapara police station started tracking the unknown accused. The team members started interrogating the applicant in detail regarding the incident and started locating the unknown accused. The mobile numbers from which the call was received by the team members on the applicant’s mobile phone.
Technical analysis of those mobile numbers was done. Efforts were made to identify the accused by obtaining account and transaction details from the concerned bank in respect of the bank accounts in which the amount was deposited by the applicant and the beneficiary accounts from which the amount was transferred. After several days of intensive technical analysis and analysis of various bank accounts, it was revealed that the accused were carrying out this online fraud from Delhi in the name of insurance policy. On which a special team was prepared and sent to Delhi to arrest the accused. After reaching Noida, the team members camped continuously for more than a week and in the name of posing as tenants and searching for jobs, traced the accused and their locations. On investigation of the accused, it was confirmed that many such fraud incidents were carried out by the accused while hiding their identity very carefully.
During technical analysis and tracing, it was also revealed that the mobile numbers used by the accused were fake and the addresses of the bank accounts used were also registered in the name of other persons. Those mobile numbers and accounts were used by the accused only to commit fraud. The team camped in Delhi for more than a week and conducted a detailed recce at the possible location of the accused and obtained important information regarding the operation of a call center by the accused in Noida. After confirming the information, the team found the accused in B-41, Sector 63, A raid was conducted at MD Wealth Crater Call Center located in Noida and 14 accused who were involved in large scale fraud by operating a fake call center were arrested. Apart from this, a total of 41 persons including 25 women working in the call center and present at the spot were given notice and their role in the fraud incidents is being investigated. During interrogation, the accused, along with admitting to committing the said crime, also admitted to committing fraud by duping crores of rupees from different places across the country by claiming to be from the Insurance Verification Department.
During the proceedings, the accused were arrested and 57 pieces of key-paid mobile phones, 01 wireless phone, 01 laptop, more than 1000 pages of documents related to various insurance companies and more than 50 fake SIM cards were seized from their possession. The accused have been arrested from Delhi and brought to Raipur on transit remand. Apart from this crime, detailed interrogation is being done in connection with the incidents of fraud committed in other places of the country. Initially it has been revealed that the accused were running a fraud syndicate and gang in the name of insurance policy. This type of fraud has been committed in Raipur, Durg, Dhamtari of the state as well as in Assam and Haryana and other states also.
Manjesh Kumar Chauhan has been arrested in the year 2019 from district Durg in a case of fraud of Rs 65 lakh. Ravi Chauhan and Rishabh Chauhan have been previously arrested in fraud cases from Delhi. The accused change their place of residence and change their call center within 6 months. The accused are currently under investigation in Assam.With the receipt of information that resident Lalit Sharma was defrauded of Rs 25 lakh and an applicant from Rohtak, Haryana was defrauded to the tune of Rs 40 lakh, large-scale fraud was carried out in different states across the country. It has been known. In relation to which information is being shared by coordinating with the police of the respective states. Information has been received about the accused cheating a person from Dhamtari district, in this regard information is also being provided to Dhamtari police. On perusal of the bank accounts of the accused obtained so far, transactions worth crores of rupees have been found in these accounts, which are being further investigated and information regarding the transaction details of the bank accounts of the arrested accused and the amount available in those accounts is being held. Correspondence has been sent to the concerned banks regarding this. Police remand of the arrested accused will be taken and they will be interrogated in detail.
arrested accused

1. Ravi Chauhan, father Madan Chauhan, age 30 years, resident of town Shyana, police station Shyana, Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh).
2. Manjesh Kumar Chauhan, father Chhotalal, age 36 years, resident of Pratap Vihar Vijay Nagar, Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh).
3. Manoj Kumar Sharma, father Ramnaresh Sharma, age 37 years, resident of Ghazipur Delhi.
4. Divya Kumar father Umesh Kumar age 24 years resident Bahadurgarh Hapur, Punjab.
5. Rishabh Chauhan, father Umesh Kumar, age 24 years, resident of Bahadurgarh, Hapur, Punjab.
6. Nitish Kumar father Bhagmal Singh age 29 years resident Ashok Nagar Delhi.
7. Neeraj Singh, father Kalicharan Singh, age 32 years, resident of Basai Alera district, Agra (Uttar Pradesh).
8. Tarak Biswas, father Sunil Biswas, age 30 years, resident of Bisrakh Gautam Buddha Nagar (Uttar Pradesh).
9. Vineet Kumar, father Jitendra Kumar, age 29 years, resident of Sardana, Meerut (Uttar Pradesh).
10. Monu, father Gyanendra Singh, age 26 years, resident of Jahangirpur district Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh).
11. Nazim Mansoori father Faik Mansoori age 28 years resident Shastri Park Delhi.
12. Ranjit Kumar, father Raju Kumar, age 25 years, resident of district and police station Kasganj (Uttar Pradesh).
13. Mohnish Bawankar, father Punak Bawankar, age 37 years, resident of Khurshiwar Durg (Chhattisgarh).
14. Arun Singh, father Ramavatar Singh, age 28 years, resident of Banda Shahjahapur (Uttar Pradesh).