GANG OF CHEATS WHO DUPED PEOPLES! BUSTED AND THREE PERSONS ARRESTED

• A GANG OF CHEATS WHO DUPED INNOCENT PEOPLE ON THE PRETEXT OF GIVING HANDSOME BONUS/RETURNS ON INSURANCE POLICIES BUSTED AND THREE PERSONS ARRESTED.
• THE GANG MEMBERS HAVE ERECTED A CALL CENTRE FROM WHERE THEY INDUCED THE INNOCENT PEOPLE ON TELEPHONE
• THEY HAD CHEATED MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE ALL OVER INDIA AND DUPED CRORES OF RUPEES
• NINE MOBILE PHONES, ONE COMPUTER, SOME FAKE IDs USED TO OPEN THE BANK ACCOUNT AND SOME OTHER DOCUMENTS RECOVERED

 

With the arrest of (1) Vikas Tyagi @ Amar Singh aged 31 years s/o Virender Tyagi r/o Indra Vihar, Khoda Colony, Ghaziabad, UP; (2) Rahul Tyagi @ K.C. Gupta aged 34 years s/o Ram Dutt r/o Vill. Firozpur, Distt. Baghpat, UP and (3) Sonu Kumar @ Dhanraj Singh aged 30 years s/o Shishpal Singh r/o Vill. Afzalpur, Sahibabad, UP, the Special Staff of Central District has busted a gang of cheats who were duping people on the pretext of giving handsome bonus/returns on insurance policies. They have erected a Call Centre in Vasundhara, Ghaziabad, UP and have duped more than two hundred people all over India. Nine mobile phones, one computer, some fake IDs used to open the bank account and some other documents have been recovered.

 

INCIDENT

Complainant Shri Ghan Shyam Dass Gupta r/o Churiwalan, Sitaram Bazar, Delhi reported that he is retired from a private company and he had saved some money during his job which he wanted to invest in some good portfolio. In the year 2013, one Rajeev Mittal called him and introduced himself as an employee of ING Vysya Bank Ltd., Karol Bagh Branch. He induced the complainant to invest money in one time premium insurance policies in which he will get substantial return after a period of certain term. Relying upon his version, the complainant invested a sum of Rs. 12,96,000 in such policies but after some time, the complainant came to know that the these policies were not one time premium policies. He contacted Rajeev Mittal to withdraw these policies, who further gave the number of one Niranjan Aggarwal, working in the office of IRDA. When the complainant further contacted Niranjan Aggarwal, he also asked him to deposit Rs. 22,79,344 in a given bank account to get back the whole insurance amount. The complainant deposited the said amount but alleged Niranjan Aggarwal further told to deposit more amount on the pretext of amendments in the insurance laws. Thereafter, some other persons namely K.C. Gupta, Balwant Singh Sahni, Amar Singh etc. contacted the complainant with the similar modus operandi and asked the complainant to deposit amounts in different accounts which the complainant deposited as and when demanded. In all, the complainant was duped of Rs. 77,20,216 during the years from 2014 to 2017. The alleged persons time and again misrepresenting themselves to be the officials of IRDA/Insurance Company.  Subsequently, a case of cheating vide FIR No. 546/18 was registered at PS Karol Bagh and investigating was taken up.

 

TEAM AND INVESTIGATION

Sensing the involvement of an organized gang behind this incident and gravity of the case, the investigation of this case was transferred to Operation Cell, Central District.

 

A police team led by Inspr. Lalit Kumar I/C Special Staff comprising of SI Raj Kumar, SI Ravinder, ASI Sushil Rana, ASI Yogender, ASI Pradeep, ASI Narender, HC Vinod, HC Ajay, HC Santosh, HC Vinod Kumar, HC Shekhar, HC Rakesh, HC Pramod, Ct. Atul, Ct. Jamil, Ct. Pankaj, Ct. Mahender, Ct. Vinod, W/Ct. Minakshi and W/Ct. Sushma was formed under the supervision of Shri Naresh Kumar, ACP/Operations, Central District, Delhi.

 

During investigation, the details of accounts of the complainant and the alleged persons were obtained and analysed which revealed that all the bank accounts were opened on fake IDs. The alleged persons had already withdrawn the cheated money. The police team made sincere efforts and used modes of technical surveillance through which the team zeroed in some suspicious mobile numbers but the ownership was found to be fake. Further, sources were deployed and after painstaking efforts, two persons were zeroed in and it was learnt that they are running a call centre at Vasundhara, Ghaziabad, UP. In the morning of 30.04.19, the police team conducted a raid at the call centre and three persons namely Rahul, Vikas Tyagi and Sonu Kumar were apprehended and nine mobile phones, one computer, some fake IDs and some other documents were seized.

 

INTERROGATION

All the accused persons were subjected to sustained interrogation in which they admitted thier involvement in the present case. They further disclosed that some other persons are also involved in this gang. They procured fake IDs to get SIM cards and to open bank accounts. They have cheated large number of people of different states of India. They induced the innocent people by impersonating themselves as employee/agent of insurance companies/IRDA and promised handsome bonus/returns on the insurance policies and then they get deposited certain amounts in their bank accounts from the innocent people and after withdrawing the money, they switched off their mobile phones. They had taken away crores of rupees hard-earned money of the innocent people.

 

Further investigation is under progress and efforts are being made to nab the remaining accomplices and to recover the cheated amount.

 

RECOVERY

• Nine mobile phones being used to cheat innocent people
• One computer
• Some fake IDs being used to get SIM card and to open bank account
• Some other documents

 

PROFILE

1. Vikas Tyagi @ Amar Singh completed his graduation in the year 2012. Thereafter, he started his job in an insurance broker company in Noida where he came in contact with Rahul Tyagi who was team leader in the company. In the year 2015, he came in contact with Anil Kumar and his associates who were running a call centre and cheating the innocent people with similar modus operandi.
2. Rahul Tyagi @ K.C. Gupta has passed 12^th standard and started working as a compounder in Vill. Khekhda, UP. In the year 2014, he came in contact with one Anil Kumar through FACEBOOK and started working as Commission Agent in the Call Centre of Anil Kumar and cheated several innocent people.
3. Sonu Kumar @ Dhanraj Singh has completed 12 standard and started working as an Auto driver. In the year 2011, he worked in an insurance broker company in Noida and came in contact with Vikas Tyagi. In the year 2015, he also started working in call centre of Anil Kumar and cheated large number of innocent people.

 

Later, they started their own call centre along with other accomplices and cheated large number of innocent people.