Gurugram: 4 land in police net for Rs 30,000 cyber fraud

The Gurugram police have arrested four persons for cheating people on the pretext of selling iPhones on social media. Six mobile phones, an ATM card, two bank passbooks and Rs 18,000 cash have been recovered from them.

According to the police, they received a complaint on January 29 regarding a fraud of Rs 30,000, following which an FIR was registered. The accused were identified as Sunny, Aniket, Hitesh Jangra and Mukesh, alias Rohit. They were all sent to four days of police remand after being produced in a city court. After the completion of their police remand, they were produced in a city court, which sent them to judicial custody.

“It was revealed that the main accused, Mukesh, was the one committing the fraud on social media. The bank account used in the fraud was opened in Aniket’s name while the mobile number registered in the account belonged to Sunny. Aniket and Sunny sold the account to Hitesh, who further sold it to Mukesh. In return, Sunny received Rs 4,000 for the task while Aniket got Rs 8,000 and Hitesh Rs 20,000. A probe into the matter is underway,” said Priyanshu Dewan, ACP (Cyber).

Haryana Tribune