The team of PS Cyber, South District has done commendable work by arresting a cheat namely Dinesh Chand in a case FIR No. 78/2022 u/s 420 IPC Cyber PS South. Upon his instance, 03 mobile phones, 03 SIM cards, 20 Debit/Credit cards, 04 cheque books, 01 passbook, 01 Bharat PE POS Machine, 02 Aadhar cards, 01 PAN Card & 01 Passport were recovered. 

A complaint was lodged in Cyber Police Station South alleging therein that the complainant received a WhatsApp message on his mobile phone stating “Dear Customer Your Electricity Power will be disconnected tonight at 09.30 PM from electricity office, because your previous month bill was not updated.

Please immediately contact with our electricity customer service at 8250953970”. Later the complainant also received a call from the fraudster who asked to download an “Electricity APK” file on his mobile. On downloading and installing the APK file, two transactions of Rs. 49805/- & 49645/- were made/debited from complainant’s bank account. In this regard, a case vide FIR No. 78/22 u/s 420 IPC was registered in PS Cyber, South and investigation was taken up.

Mr.Chandan Chowdhary, IPS, DCP, South Distt., said, during interrogation, the accused person disclosed that he worked as an Operation Executive in an E-commerce Co. where he came in contact of one Vivek and with his help, he opened several bank accounts in different bank and get issued several credit/debit cards in the same accounts. After that, Vivek used to send the money in the credit cards of accused Dinesh. Further, the accused Dinesh Swiped those cards on POS machine and sent the money to Vivek and also sent the money through Phone Pe App on the numbers provided by Vivek.

TEAM, INVESTIGATION & ARREST:- Keeping in view the gravity of the case, a team comprising of SI Sandeep Saini, HC Vikas, HC Parveen & HC Anil Kumar headed by Inspr. Arun, SHO/Cyber South under overall supervision of Shri Rajesh Kumar, ACP/Ops.SD was constituted and investigation of the case was taken up.

During the course of investigation, the team collected details of the bank accounts wherein the amount was transferred and it was found that the cheated money was transferred into two credit cards of different banks. The team collected details of the credit cards/accounts wherein the cheated amount was transferred.

Further with the help of technical analysis, details of the mobile number was collected from which the call was received and the same was analyzed thoroughly. The team worked on all the available aspects of the case. Efforts of the team yielded results when the accused was identified and his location was zeroed down in Dwarka area. A raid was conducted and the accused Dinesh Chand was arrested. Upon his instance, 03 mobile phones, 03 SIM cards, 20 Debit/Credit cards, 04 cheque books, 01 pass book, 01 Bharat PE POS Machine, 02 Aadhar cards, 01 PAN Card & 01 Passport were recovered.

INTERROGATION:- Mr.Chandan Chowdhary, IPS, DCP, South Distt., said, during interrogation, the accused person disclosed that he worked as an Operation Executive in an E-commerce Co. where he came in contact of one Vivek and with his help, he opened several bank accounts in different bank and get issued several credit/debit cards in the same accounts. After that, Vivek used to send the money in the credit cards of accused Dinesh. Further, the accused Dinesh Swiped those cards on POS machine and sent the money to Vivek and also sent the money through Phone Pe App on the numbers provided by Vivek.

PROFILE OF ACCUSED ARRESTED:-Dinesh Chand S/o Ghure Lal R/o Sec- 28, Dwarka, Delhi. Permanent Address - Vilage- Baas Mahua, PO- Shamsabad, Tehsil- Fathehabad, Distt-Agra, U.P. Age - 34 Years.

 Further investigation is underway. The staff involved in good work is being suitably rewarded.