Lucknow News Today: Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has arrested two members of an organized gang that cheated crores of rupees in the name of digital arrest. A case has been registered against the arrested accused Raj Kumar Singh and Sandeep Dohra in the Cyber Crime Police Station of Lucknow.
A doctor named Ashok Solanki had filed a complaint in this regard. The complainant had told that both the accused, posing as officers of CBI, Narcotics and Crime Branch, kept him under digital arrest for two days and during this, they defrauded the victim of Rs 48 lakh.
How did you cheat?
After this complaint, STF with the help of cyber crime team conducted a raid in Gurugram, Haryana to reach other members of the gang. Earlier, STF has arrested five accused in this case. Now two more accused have been arrested from Vibhutikhand area of Lucknow.
During police interrogation, cyber thug Raj Kumar Singh revealed that the main member of the gang, Pankaj, had gone to Cambodia for fraud training. After returning from there, the gang started cheating using a large number of bank accounts.
The accused used to commit fraud on digital platforms through an app and software. 70 percent of the defrauded amount was sent to Chinese wallets through cryptocurrency.
Have committed these crimes
This gang has committed a fraud of Rs 8 crore in Noida in August 2024. Out of which 30 percent commission was taken. Its cyber thugs defrauded KVB Bank account of Rs 36 lakh before Diwali, in which the accused received Rs 7 lakh.
Similarly, after Diwali, the accused cheated Rs 2.5 crore from the Canara Bank account. Two mobile phones and 41 WhatsApp screenshots containing information about the bank accounts used in the fraud have been recovered from the arrested accused. One of the accused booked a flat worth Rs 31 lakh in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan.
This gang of cyber thugs was planning to carry out a major crime. Under this, there was a plan to send a person as security to Cambodia, so that further fraud could be done by making calls from there.
Big revelations expected in investigation
STF is collecting information about other bank accounts, wallets and gang members. STF will conduct forensic examination of the recovered electronic devices. Necessary legal action will be taken by presenting the arrested accused in the court under the case registered in the cyber crime police station.
STF is expecting even bigger revelations from the gang members. A case was registered against the arrested accused in Cyber Crime Police Station Lucknow under Section 319(2), 318(2), 338, 336, 340, 61(2) A BNS and 66 D IT Act. The investigation team is busy in further action.
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