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In major breakthrough Two cases were solved in which 04 accused arrested in case 1. FIR No. 17 dated 17.02.2024 U/s 419, 420, 120B IPC (467, 468, 471 IPC Added), PS- Cyber Crime, Chandigarh and case FIR No. 03 dated 10.01.2024 U/s 419, 420, 120B IPC, PS-Cyber Crime under the leadership of Sh. Ketan Bansal, IPS, SP-Cyber, UT, Chandigarh, under close guidance of Sh. A Venkatesh, DSP/Cyber Crime& IT UT, Chandigarh and supervision of Inspector Sh. Ranjit Singh SHO Police Station-Cyber Crime, Sec.17, Chandigarh.
Police said, above mentioned case was registered on the complaint of Sh. Sachin Aggarwal, #2289, Astha Apartment, Sector-48, Chandigarhin which he alleged that he saw an advertisement on Facebook regarding KKRMF (KKR India Financial Services)and Join first group of KKRMF.
A person namely Susan Thompson started contacted him on telegram and recommended about stocks to buy and sell. Every evening there were 1 hour knowledge session kept on trading tips and tricks and small rewards were rewarded in those sessions via “Spin and Win” game Susan Thompson liaised with Amit Choudhary and started ping him to encourage and lure to open Demat accounts with them. Later he was moved to a new Group named “Indian Stock Market Insights 194 (KKRMF)” where he was provided a link of Android Application called KKRMF from Google Playstore.
Complainant transferred Rs. 4 Lakhs through IMPS in the name of Shri Shyam Fal and Sabji Bhandar and their fake application KKRMF started showing his Balance Rs. 5 Lakhs. Later on the same day, he again transferred Rs. 1.5 Lakh and in this way in allurement he totally transferred them 20 lakhs. Then he was informed that his account was frozen and he was demanded more money to be transferred to make his overall portfolio to 30 Lakhs. He was threatened to seize his account so he futher made a transfer of Rs 7 Lakhs. Later he came to know that he got trapped in fraud in the name of investment which ending up almost 27 Lakhs from his hard earned money and a case was registered.
Amit Choudhary assisted him in Fake registration in their application and a national Demat account was provided to him which showing the increasing profit account in his account, while actually there were no buy/sell orders what were sent to stock exchanges. Then Amit and Susan asked him to transfer funds in their accounts and promised him to give Rs. 10,000/- as joining bonus.
On this, Complainant transferred Rs. 4 Lakhs through IMPS in the name of Shri Shyam Fal and Sabji Bhandar and their fake application KKRMF started showing his Balance Rs. 5 Lakhs. Later on the same day, he again transferred Rs. 1.5 Lakh and in this way in allurement he totally transferred them 20 lakhs. Then he was informed that his account was frozen and he was demanded more money to be transferred to make his overall portfolio to 30 Lakhs. He was threatened to seize his account so he futher made a transfer of Rs 7 Lakhs. Later he came to know that he got trapped in fraud in the name of investment which ending up almost 27 Lakhs from his hard earned money and a case was registered.
After registration of the above case during investigastion the raiding party has been constituted to proceed further into investigation and on the basis of Technical support & secret information, a raid was conducted at Kalwar Road Jaipur Rajasthan and on 31.03.2024, Manjeet Buri S/o Sultan Singh Chaudhary R/o Ladu Baba Buri Ki Dhani, PS- Kalwar Road, Hathoj District Jaipur, Rajasthan, Age 20 Years, (proprietor of AU Small Finance Bank A/c No. 2302266154538125 Shri Shyam Fal and Sabji Bandar, Near Allahabad Bank, Balaji Mandir, Kalwar Road, Greater Jaipur, Rajasthan) arrested.
The above said account of Manjeet Buri was opened by Ashish Saxena who is the Bank officer in AU small Finance Bank and helps to open the current bank accounts for cheating purpose. After that a raid conducted at Laxmi Nagar 4, Jaipur and on same day alleged Ashish Saxena S/o Kamal Kishor Saxena R/o #56B Lakshmi Nagar 4 Charan Nadi 2nd Meeno Ki Dhani, Jaipur, Rajasthan, Age-22 Years arrested. After that on the identification of arrestee Ayush Saxena raid conducted at Laxmi Nagar 4 Jaipur Rajasthan and alleged Himanshu Gautam S/o Sh. Kedar Parshad Sharma R/o A-11 Lakshmi Nagar Charan Nadi 2nd Meeno Ki Dhani Jaipur, Rajasthan Age-19 Years have been arrested, a mobile phone which were used for calling during crime was also recovered from him and further investigation is going on.
MODUS OPERANDI: The modus operandi of this case is that, scammers set up a public group on Telegram to advertise investment packages, frequently accompanied by false testimonials. Then they send the messages to the selected members, by declaring hefty profits that they had earned in thousands or in lakhs to deceive the victims.
Further, in allurement victims transferred the heavy amounts for investment. There was a main associate who handles the whole team of this scam and he further pay them small amounts and ask them to create fraud accounts to receive the cheated money from the victims.
PROFILE OF ACCUSED:
Manjeet Buri S/o S/o Sultan Singh Chaudhary R/o Ladu Baba Buri Ki Dhani, PS- Kalwar Road, Hathoj
District Jaipur, Rajasthan. 20 Years 12th studying
Ashish Saxena S/o Kamal Kishor Saxena R/o #56B Lakshmi Nagar-4, Charan Nadi 2nd Meeno Ki
Dhani, Jaipur, Rajasthan. 22 Years Graduate
Himanshu Gautam S/o Sh. Kedar Parshad Sharma R/o A-11 Lakshmi Nagar Charan Nadi 2nd Meeno Ki
Dhani, Jaipur, Rajasthan. 19 Years BA 2nd year
RECOVERY: Mobile Phones 01 Used in crime for calling
In another case which was registered on the complaint of Sh. Bhupesh R/O Chandigarh, in which he reported that on 07.01.2024 he received calls from Mobile Numbers 7501216262 & 8757112520, the user told him that he is speaking his known but the complainant also did not recognize who is calling.
The said user told that he is speaking his tenant and had transferred rent amount in complainant’s account. After some time the complainant received text message on his mobile regarding amount credit of Rs. 20,000/- & Rs. 50,000/- from mobile number 9667691515.
The user told him that he has transferred extra amount of Rs. 45,000/- by mistake, so he requested to
transfer back extra amount in his Paytm account. On this complainant credited an amount of Rs. 35,000/- in the account given by the alleged.
Later on the complainant checked his account balance and found that no amount was credited in his account. Thus, the complainant came to know that he was cheated to the tune of Rs. 35,000/-. In this regard case has been registered.
After registration of the above case the raiding party has been constituted and with the help of technical assistance and secret information, raids was conducted on 29.03.2024 at Faridabad (HR) area and accused Arsad S/o Mahrudin R/o H. No. 224 Vill. Madalpur Distt. Faridabad HR was arrested according to Police procedure and one mobile phone has been recovered from the said accused and taken in Police
possession. Further accused Arsad was produced before the Hon’ble Court and sent on Judicial custody.
MODUS OPERENFI: In such cases fraudsters call to person by imitating their known or relatives and ask them that they had to return the amount of the person and later send them fake messages of credited amount. Further, they ask them to return their balance amount and in such way they cheated the innocent people.
KNOW THE ACCUSED: Arsad S/o Mahrudin R/o H. No. 224 Vill. Madalpur, Distt. Faridabad HR 36
yrs., Illiterate . ONE Mobile Phone used in crime for calling and one SIM Card.
Further, the recovered data is being shared with I4C to get the same analyzed to reveal Inter-state linkages at central level to curb Cyber Crime all over the India.