Uttarakhand / Police broke the web of cyber thugs of Jamtara, fraud worth more than 400 crores exposed

Zoom News : Feb 28, 2022, 09:01 AM
Breaking the web of cyber thugs of Jamtara, the police have arrested two accused of cyber fraud gang of people on the pretext of winning lottery and sending goods by courier. Mobile phones and bank passbooks were recovered from them. Both have revealed during interrogation that the gang has opened bank accounts in the names of many people and has cheated crores of rupees so far. The police produced both of them in court and sent them to jail. A team of police has gone to West Bengal in search of the kingpin.

On Sunday, SP Countryside Pramendra Singh Dobal exposed the cyber thug gang of Jamtara district of Jharkhand by holding a press conference in his office. He told that a few days ago, Pawan Kumar, a resident of a factory in Bhagwanpur, was cheated of two lakhs in the name of a courier from village Makwa, police station Asarganj district Munger (Bihar). The thugs had called and told that the courier would come and

To get it, the details of the ATM card were taken, saying that you have to put five rupees on Google Pay. After this OTP was sent on the mobile. Later cyber thugs called from another number and asked for OTP, but they did not give it. After that the amount was withdrawn from the account.

The police had registered a case on the basis of Tahrir. Since then the police was investigating both the mobile numbers and finding the location. SP Dehat said that the location of mobile numbers was found in the parking lot at Kaliyar late on Saturday evening. On this the police team reached Kaliyar and searched for the thugs. Police arrested Ramzan Ali resident village East Dullopur, Thana Itahar district North Dinajpur West Bengal and Hall resident house number-1 Chandralok Nitak Bihari Market Sector-28 Chakarpur Gurugram and Sanjay Mandal resident village and post East Sridharpur police station Ramdighi district 24 Parganas South West Bengal and Arrested recently resident of SS Tower near Mahaveer Store Chakarpur Sector-29 Gurugram.

Passbooks of three banks and three mobiles were recovered from both of them. During interrogation, both revealed that the gang runs from Jamtara and the kingpin is Akbar. He lives in Asansol, West Bengal. They lure both the people to open their bank accounts and give three thousand in return. After this, take his passbook, ATM and check book and give it to Akbar. In return, Akbar gives them four thousand rupees. After this, together with Akbar, they cheat people by taking ATM details and OTP by calling people in the name of lottery and courier. Both told that they have opened accounts of two hundred people and have transferred money to these accounts by duping about four hundred crores. SP Dehat told that a police team has been sent to West Bengal in search of Akbar. Both were produced in court and sent to jail.

SO PD Bhatt patted the back

SSP Dr. Yogendra Singh Rawat and SP Dehat have patted SO PD Bhatt for exposing the cyber thug gang. Appreciating the SP Dehat said that it is a difficult task to catch the cyber thug gang. The SO has done a great job by working hard with the team and catching the gang. At the same time, the SSP announced a reward of Rs. The police team included SO PD Bhatt, SI Shailendra Mamgai, Sepoy Akbar, Sudhir Kumar, Amar and Lal Singh.

Since when were you in Kaliyar, investigation is going on

After apprehending two accused of cyber thug gang, the police is investigating how long they were living in Kaliyar area. Also, from whom has the gang cheated? Apart from this, the banks whose passbooks have been received, those banks are also being investigated. Police suspect that bank officials and employees may have also met with cyber thugs.

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