ACCUSED WAS A DROPPED OUT STUDENT OF NATIONAL LAW INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY, BHOPAL, ACCUSED TOOK MONEY FROM COMPLAINANTS ACROSS PAN INDIA ON THE PRETEXT OF DEFREEZING THE BANK ACCOUNTS BLOCKED BY VARIOUS LEGAL AGENCIES, ACCCUSED MADE A FAKE WEBSITE TO GAIN TRUST OF VICTIMS.
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The staff of PS Cyber, South District has done commendable work by arresting a cheat namely Prateek Dahiya in case FIR No. 128/23 dt. 27.12.2023 U/s 419/420 IPC, Cyber Police Station, South. Upon his instance, 01 mobile phone used in crime, 04 debit cards, 01 Aadhar card and 01 SIM card used in crime were recovered.
A complaint was received at Cyber PS, South District wherein the complainant R/o Hauz Khas stated that his bank account was blocked from NCRP Portal for some Binance transaction. To resolve this matter the complainant searched for legal help on Google and came across a website and got a mobile number of the person who introduced himself as an advocate in higher Courts of India and having good contacts in Police Department across India. The alleged person cheated the complainant on the pretext of defreezing his bank account and other charges and provided fake screenshot of fake email sent by official government E-mail Id of Cyber Police Station, South Delhi. On the statement of the complainant, a case vide FIR No. 128/23 dt. 27.12.2023 U/s 419/420 IPC was registered at PS Cyber, South and investigation was taken up.
Keeping in view gravity of the case and nature of incident, a team comprising of SI Guman Singh, SI Ankit Sharma, HC Surender and HC Harender Kumar led by Inspr. Arun Kumar Verma, SHO/Cyber PS under overall supervision of ACP/Operations/SD was formed to investigate the matter and nab the cheats.Mr. Chandan Choudhary, IPS. DCP, South Distt., said, during the course of interrogation, accused Prateek Dahiya disclosed that his own bank account was frozen by a legal agency in a complaint of Cyber Fraud and he was able to defreeze the same through an advocate. There he learned the art of handling legal agencies and got this idea of cheating for which he made a fake website to hire clients.
During the course of preliminary enquiry, the complainant was enquired in details. Further, the trail through which the cheated money was transferred into the fraudster’s Bank Accounts were collected from the concerned banks and CAF/CDR of the mobile phone number through which the call was received by the complainant were also collected and put on extensive surveillance.
The team worked on all the available aspects of the case. Some other relevant details of bank transactions were analyzed at length and logically verified. During analysis of all the relevant details it was revealed that the several complaints across Pan India were received in which complainants have been cheated by the same modus operandi. Details from the NCRP Portal and local police stations were received and it came to notice that the accused person is specifically targeting the victims whose account has been blocked from legal agencies across Pan India. The team conducted detailed meticulous technical analysis of call details and transferred money. The details of the fake website were obtained and it was revealed that the accused person has been using name of different advocates on the website and has provided a single mobile number on the victims can contact. Efforts of the team bore fruits when through surveillance and technical analysis the location of the accused person was zeroed down at EWS Flats, Narela, New Delhi.
Immediately, the team conducted a raid and the accused was successfully apprehended. Upon his instance, 01 mobile phone used in crime, 01 mobile phone used in crime, 04 debit cards, 01 Aadhar card and 01 SIM card used in crime. Later on, he was identified as Prateek Dahiya. The accused was arrested and the recovered case property was seized.
PROFILE OF THE ACCUSED PERSON ARRESTED: -
Prateek Dahiya S/o Sh. Pramod Dahiya R/o Sultanpur Dabas, New Delhi, Age - 27 years. He is a permanent resident of Sonipat, Haryana and had studied at NLIU, Bhopal, M.P. for 01 year and thereafter dropped the university on getting a supplementary in University annual examinations. He learned few aspects of law there and used the same in cheating victims across India.
INTERROGATION: Mr. Chandan Choudhary, IPS. DCP, South Distt., said, during the course of interrogation, accused Prateek Dahiya disclosed that his own bank account was frozen by a legal agency in a complaint of Cyber Fraud and he was able to defreeze the same through an advocate. There he learned the art of handling legal agencies and got this idea of cheating for which he made a fake website to hire clients.
He further told that he started representing himself as an advocate of the Higher Court of India and used to contact the victims as well as police authorities with same designation. Accused used to take money in accounts opened using fake documents and then he used to send fake screenshots of Emails sent from official government Email IDs and after some time used to block the victims. He also disclosed that he has cheated more than 100 persons through this modus operandi and has spent all the money on online cricket betting.