Crime Branch, Jammu on Friday claimed to have arrested gang of interstate cyber criminals and have succeeded in recovering an amount of Rs. 11,02,880/- from them, which was looted from the complainant fraudulently.According to the statement issued to KNS, Crime Branch said that they were working on awritten complaint lodged by Sh. Arun Bandral S/o Parladh Singh R/o Ward No. 4 near New Bus Stand, Samba wherein he had alleged that he submitted his resume in Naukri.com upon which he received a call from Expert Noukri Services (Sonstant Company) named Ashish who offered him a job in a multinational company in India/Abroad and also gave his account number and asked him to deposit Rs. 2500/- and then send the deposit slip on company Email [email protected].“The said Ashish again called him and ask to deposit Rs. 6,500/- as verification fee, Rs. 16,800/- as job security fee etc. and after few days the complainant received a call from one Aryan who told him that he has been selected in TATA Project Company but has to deposit Rs. 25,400/- in the company A/c for the interview,” the statement reads.
They said that after few days again he received a call from Aryan who again asked to deposit Rs. 27,890/- on the pretext of qualifying the first round of interview and similarly a total sum of Rs. 4,21,280/- was deposited by the complainant from time to time after which he received an offer letter and subsequently an unknown person came to his residence and took photographs of his house and family members on the pretext of his verification and thereafter he again received a call from Ayran that since he has been selected for the TATA Project in Abroad therefore he has to further deposit Rs. 4.00 lac within shortest possible which the complainant deposited. He again received a call from one Varun Tyagi who demanded Rs. 88,000/- which the complainant deposited and was told that he will join the company in mid of January 2015, but after few days Aryan again asked the complainant to deposit Rs. 5.15 lac as the joining letter has to signed by the CEO of TATA Project which were also deposited in the A/c of Gourav Tyagi but even after waiting for considerable period of time and depositing Rs. 15, 92,380/- in the A/c numbers provided by the accused persons from time to time neither the job was provided to him nor his money was returned etc.
Crime Branch said that on the receipt of this complaint an enquiry was conducted and during the course of enquiry it was revealed that the accused had used various mobile numbers and account numbers as they, in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy and using fake names had allured and cheated the complainant on the pretext of providing him a job and in the process had duped him of his hard earned money amounting to Rs.15,92,380/-solely in order to cause wrongful gains to themselves and wrongful loss to the complainant.Accordingly, a formal case was registered at Police Station Crime Branch, Jammu and the same was entrusted to Inspr. Kewal Kishore Gupta, who during the course of investigation identified the accused persons as Prateek Sharma S/o Naresh Kumar Sharma R/o Ghaziabad, Gourav Tyagi S/o Late Dinesh Tyagi R/o Noida, Mani Masih Gill S/o Jacob Masih R/o Ghaziabad and Sandeep Bhati S/o Bhagat Lala Bhati R/o Ghaziabad and after putting in hard out efforts under the supervision of Sh. Mubassir Latifi, SSP Crime Branch, Jammu succeeded in arresting all of them from Ghaziabad, U.P. Later, on the revelations made by the accused persons an amount of Rs. 11,02,880/- was recovered from three of them. However, the investigation of the case is still under progress for the purpose of recovery of the pending amount and to ascertain the involvement of some more persons in the instant case. (KNS)