• CALL CENTER WAS OPERATING IN THE AREA OF VIKASPURI, DELHI. • 06 CYBER CRIMINALS ARRESTED FROM HARYANA, DELHI & TELENGANA IN A SPECIAL INTENSIVE ACTION AGAINST CYBER FRAUDSTERS.• 01 LAPTOP AND 41 MOBILE PHONES RECOVERED.• A CALL WAS MADE TO PUBLIC IN THE NAME OF EXTENSION OF CREDIT LIMIT/PIN• GENERATION OF THEIR CREDIT CARDS.• THEN APK FILES WERE SENT TO VICTIM & THEIR HARD ERNEST MONEY IN CREDIT CARD & BANK ACCOUNTS WERE SIPHONED OFF.• 95 COMPLAINTS WERE FOUND ON NCRP PORTAL AGAINST RECOVERED MOBILE PHONES, WHICH DUPED AN AMOUNT OF APPROX. RS 85 LAKH.
Face2News/New Delhi
Cyber-crime has been increasing significantly across the nation and especially in the national capital as the fraudsters operating from remote areas of other states have been targeting gullible citizens residing in Delhi and NCR.
A case FIR No. 31/2025, dated 21.06.2025, U/s 318(4)/61(2) BNS was registered at Cyber Police Station, Dwarka, Delhi on the complaint of Mr. Virender Kumar, aged 42 years resident of Bindapur, Dwarka, Delhi.
The complainant reported that he has made a new credit card of Private bank, he received a call for generation of PIN of newly issued credit card, thereafter he learnt that there was unauthorised transaction of Rs. 2,81,246/- without her knowledge or consent.
MODUS-OPERANDI: -The accused were operating an illegal call centre in Vikaspuri area, they called private bank credit card holder in the name of extension of credit limit and generation of PIN of new Credit Card. They sent APK file to the customer's phone and got unauthorised access to their mobile phone (including SMS).
Mr. Ankit Singh, IPS, DCP, Dwarka Distt, said, accused Vijay Sharma was the kingpin of the fake call centre at Vikaspuri, whereas Mulchand Mishra was the partner and manager of fake call centre and Amit who operate the fake SIM Cards and Mule Bank accounts was located at Hyderabad. Gaurav was the driver and co-partner of Vijay of Vikaspuri, Pradeep Sahu was arrested from Panipat who procured the Sim Card of poor people and further supplied it to Amit.Accused Vijay Sharma operated this fake call centre with the help of 04 young girls who initially called the victim and further it transferred to Vijay Sharma, who sent the APK file to the victim and grabbed the access.
Thereafter, they used the entire credit card limit to transfer to mule accounts which were operated by them and also purchased high value new mobile phones from e-commerce websites. Thereafter they used to sell these mobile phones to retail mobile shops, impersonating as company dealers, offering mobile sales at discounted price.
INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED: Immediately, upon receipt of the complaint, preliminary enquiry was carried out and FIR registration was done promptly done. On analysing the data received from various financial institutions it was established that the cheated amount was transferred to Flipkart and 06 mobile phones were purchased against that amount by using a fake account on Flipkart.
Later on, after technical surveillances the location from where call was made to complainant, was ascertained to be in Vikaspuri, West Delhi, and the person who provided the fake SIM cards and Mule Bank accounts of poor people of Panipat, Haryana and Bhatinda, Punjab was detected at Hyderabad, Telangana.
A raid was conducted on the same date and time both at Hyderabad and Vikaspuri by different teams.
Mr. Ankit Singh, IPS, DCP, Dwarka Distt, said, accused Vijay Sharma was the kingpin of the fake call centre at Vikaspuri, whereas Mulchand Mishra was the partner and manager of fake call centre and Amit who operate the fake SIM Cards and Mule Bank accounts was located at Hyderabad. Gaurav was the driver and co-partner of Vijay of Vikaspuri, Pradeep Sahu was arrested from Panipat who procured the Sim Card of poor people and further supplied it to Amit.
Accused Vijay Sharma operated this fake call centre with the help of 04 young girls who initially called the victim and further it transferred to Vijay Sharma, who sent the APK file to the victim and grabbed the access.
TEAM & OPERATION: -In order to crackdown on cybercrime and to arrest cyber fraudsters and bust the fake call centre from Vikaspuri, Delhi & Hyderabad, Telangana, team under overall supervision of Sh. Ankit Singh, Worthy DCP/Dwarka District and under close supervision of Sh. Ram Avtar, ACP/Ops, Insp. Rajeev Kumar SHO/PS Cyber and Insp. Birender Singh, Cyber PS were formed comprising SI Vikas Sangwan, SI Kailash, W/ASI Beema, HC Surendra Kumar, HC Vikas, HC Vinay, HC Sajjan, HC Abhay, HC Sunil, W/HC Renu, Ct. Naresh, Ct. Yogesh, of Cyber PS Dwarka who displayed outstanding technical skills, patience, dedication and procedural accuracy to bust the fake Call Centre.
They acted promptly on the complaint, conducted a multi-layered digital investigation including IP, IMEI, UPI, telecom and banking trails detection.
OPERATION: The team executed the arrest of the accused: - Vijay Kumar Sharma, Moolchand Mishra, Gaurav & Hemant were arrested from Delhi. Amit S/o Shiv lal was arrested from Hyderabad, Telangana. Pradeep Sahu was arrested from Panipat, Haryana.
KNOW THE ACCUSED: Vijay Kumar Sharma S/o Banwari Lal, R/o Uttam Nagar, Delhi, aged 46 Yrs. Qualification: - B. Com, LLB, GNIIT (Software) & IIHT (Hardware)., Amit S/o Shivlal, R/o Panipat Haryana, aged 27., STUDIED UPTO - Primary School. Moolchand Mishra R/o Suresh Chand, R/o Aligarh, UP, aged 51 Yrs., only 10th pass, Pardeep Sahu S/o Bhunesar Sahu, R/o Panipat, Haryana, aged 28 Yrs. studied upto Primary School., Gaurav S/o Bholanath, R/o Kirari, Delhi, age 38 Yrs. studied upto 7th class and Hemant S/o Subhash, R/o Uttam Nagar, Delhi, aged 25 Yrs., studied upto 12th.
RECOVERY: -• 41 Mobile phones have been seized. 01 Laptop and 01 router. Bank customer data diaries.