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On the run for three years, man wanted in cheating case arrested from Jaipur

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Jaipur: A man who was wanted in connection with duping people on the pretext of helping them get jobs in the Railways and was on the run for three years was arrested here, police said on Wednesday.
The accused, Pawan Kumar Sharma, a resident of Sawai Madhopur district, allegedly duped 10 people of Rs 70 lakh, they said.
On January 10, 2020, Omprakash Meena filed a complaint at Manpur police station alleging that Sharma and his wife Poonam Devi had cheated him, said Dausa Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Nain.

The couple had duped 10 people of Rs 70 lakh on the pretext of helping them get jobs in the Railways. They would give the victims a fake appointment letter, he said.
A team of Manpur police station arrested Sharma from a house in Jaipur’s Pratap Nagar, the SP said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 3, 2023
Man booked for ‘cheating’ TN CM as ‘captain of Indian cricket team’ with disablities

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Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Police have registered a case against a person, who cheated Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and his son, Minister for Sports & Youth Affairs Udhayanidhi Stalin, by claiming to be the captain of the Indian cricket team for persons with Disabilities.
The wheelchair-bound person, Vinoth Babu met the Chief Minister and later Udhayanidhi Stalin and claimed that he was the captain of the Indian cricket team for persons with disabilities. He also got his pictures clicked with the Chief Minister and Sports minister with a fake trophy.
He had claimed that his team had won the world tournament for the Disabled hosted in Pakistan. The photograph of Vinoth Babu with the Chief Minister and Udhayanidhi Stalin went viral and led the original Indian team members to sound an alert.

Following an investigation, the Ramanathapuram police registered an FIR against Vinoth Babu under Sections 416, 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on Wednesday.
Police said that he had taken money from several persons claiming that he was the captain. The police on verification found that he has never been abroad.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 27, 2023
Gujarat Conman’s Wife Arrested In Cheating Case

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SRINAGAR: The wife of Kiran Patel, a conman who was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir for impersonating a high-ranking official from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), was taken into custody on Tuesday for attempting to illegally acquire an elderly citizens residence, reports appearing in media said.
As per a release by Ahmedabad city crime branch, Malini Patel was apprehended from a relative’s residence in Jambusar town of Bharuch district. A few weeks after her husband’s detention in Srinagar Kashmir, an initial information report (FIR) was filed against the couple on March 22, following which Malini Patel had been on the run.
According to the release, Malini Patel, who had previously been arrested in 2017 for cheating and criminal conspiracy charges filed against her at Naroda police station in Ahmedabad, has been taken into custody once again. It was stated that Kiran Patel, her husband, has faced similar charges in at least four cases in Gujarat and has previously also been detained.
The Ahmedabad city crime branch registered a case against the couple on March 22 under Indian Penal Code sections 420, 406, 120-b, and 170, and Kiran Patel was also held by Jammu and Kashmir police earlier this month when authorities became suspicious of his activities at a five-star hotel in Srinagar.

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

March 29, 2023
Delhi: Web designer held for cheating people in the name of Patanjali Yogpeeth

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New Delhi: A 38-year-old web designer was arrested for allegedly creating fake websites and duping people in the name of Patanjali Yogpeeth, an official said on Saturday.
The accused has been identified as Rahul Kumar, a resident of Laxmi Nagar in Delhi.
According to police, a complaint was received at Dwarka Cyber police station where the victim alleged that he was searching for treatment of his wife on internet and found a mobile number.
Thereafter, he contacted on that number and one Dr Sachin Agrawal asked him to deposit Rs 50,000 in a bank account. However, after that, complainant couldn’t contact again on that number.
“The complainant again searched number on Google and found another mobile number and the alleged person asked to deposit Rs 45,600 in another bank account. When complainant again contacted him, he again demanded Rs 56,800 from the complainant, but this time, he didn’t pay,” said M Harsha Vardhan, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka).
During the investigation, the details of the beneficiary bank account were obtained and call detail records of the alleged number was obtained and analysed.
“On March 21, on the basis of technical analysis and surveillance, the team raided the house of accused Rahul and apprehended him from the Laxmi Nagar area.
“During interrogation, Rahul confessed that he was doing work of fake website designing. Rahul said that he, along with, co-accused Sumit used to dupe people in the name of some service which never gets delivered.

“Rahul used to design fake websites in the name of other leading companies like Patanjali, among others, and place the numbers there, provided by co-accused Sumit who is resident of Rajgir, Bihar and also receives calls of public persons,” said the DCP.
“Sumit used to ask the victims to deposit amount in different bank accounts and then both accused used to divide the cheating amount between them. They mostly used to do fraud in the name of Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar,” said the DCP.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 25, 2023
Gujarat Police File Cheating Case Against Conman, Custody May Follow

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SRINAGAR: The Gujarat state’s Ahmedabad Crime Branch has filed a fresh First Information Report (FIR) against Kiran Patel, a fraudster who posed as a PMO (Prime Minister’s Office) official and deceived the security establishment in Kashmir to obtain various benefits before being apprehended earlier this month.
According to an official who spoke to news agency KDC, the Ahmadabad Crime Branch has lodged a fresh FIR against Kiran Patel, dubbed a ‘conman’, after being arrested by a team of Srinagar police based on information from the CID department. Patel had posed as an additional director (strategy and campaigns) at the Prime Minister’s Office and received numerous benefits, such as a bulletproof car, security protection, and various other amenities.
The official stated that the police station of Ahmadabad’s Crime Branch in Gujarat state has registered a new FIR (number 11191011230073) against Kiran Patel under sections 406, 420, 170, and 120 B.
Sources have verified that a two-member team from the Crime Branch has been dispatched to Srinagar to assume the custody of Kiran Patel from the Srinagar police.
The initial report of the arrest of the fraudster, hailing from Gujarat, who had allegedly used fake credentials to pose as an Additional Director (Strategy & Campaigns) of the Prime Minister’s Office in New Delhi, was published by the Srinagar-based news agency, KDC. The arrest had taken place at Hotel Lalit in Srinagar, in a significant case handled by the Srinagar police.
An FIR number 19 of 2023 was registered by Srinagar police in Police Station Nishat in Srinagar, reads “On 02-03-2023 a reliable information received by Police Station Nishat has revealed that a fraudster namely Kiran Bhai Patel son of Jagdesh Bhai Patel resident of Gujarat has by virtue of criminal intention indulged in activities within the jurisdiction of this police station and other parts of Kashmir valley and by employing high degree of forged means. Kiran Bhai has impersonated himself as a senior government official of India.”
“The said individual, by resorting to cheating, forgery and impersonation has duped gullible people and also intentionally induced people to do and also to omit to do activities, under a well-knit plan for securing monetary as well as material benefits,” reads the FIR.
The imposter had taken the J&K administration and security structure for a ride by securing Z-plus security cover, a bulletproof Mahindra Scorpio SUV, official accommodation at a five-star hotel, and a lot more,” reads the FIR.

On Thursday, after hearing the arguments of the counsel representing Patel and additional public prosecutor, the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Srinagar Raja Mohammad Tasleem found the bail plea “devoid of any merit”.
“I am of the considered opinion that arguments advanced by APP are just, proper and appealing and carries much weight and on the other hand I respectfully disagree with the submission put forth by Counsel for the applicant (Patel) because in case at this stage discretion of bail is exercised in favour of the accused it shall definitely destroy the very fabric of the investigation,” the court said. “Resultantly, in my considered opinion the instant application is devoid of any merit which deserves to be rejected, hence rejected.” (KDC)

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

March 24, 2023
Tourism Department Registers 251 Complaints Of Cheating, Other TT Act Violations During 2022

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SRINAGAR: The Department of Tourism has registered 251 complaints of various nature from tourists and visitors in respect of violations of J&K Tourist Trade Act-1978/2012 by respective service providers even as 247 of these were settled and fine to the tune of Rs. 21.95 lakh was recovered from the erring service providers.
The Department, during this one year, also ensured refund of Rs. 11.82 lakh from respective service providers in favour of prospective tourists for having charged them arbitrarily or not providing them the services for which they were charged.
The Department has taken a series of recent initiatives to bring transparency and promptness in addressing any complaints from the tourists. Separate monitoring teams have already been set up at all destinations comprising respective Resort Officers, representatives from Development Authorities and Tourist Police.
This is in addition to a central monitoring team comprising senior officers to check the compliance of J&K Tourist Trade Act and ensure that tourists are treated in a manner befitting to the hospitality traditions of the place, they feel safe and in no way have any complaints of cheating, touting, overcharging.
The Department of Tourism has advised all tourism service providers to desist from any sort of cheating or overcharging from the tourists. The Department has made it amply clear that relevant provisions of J&K Registration of Tourist Trade Act-1978/2012 and other penal laws would be invoked in case of deviant stakeholders.
Secretary Tourism, Sarmad Hafeez along with Director, Tourism Kashmir, Fazlul Haseeb during a recent review meeting of the Department had given clear instructions for close monitoring by Resort Officers in this regard and not to allow any single service provider to damage the reputation of the whole tourism sector or genuine service providers.
A spokesman of the Department said though it was good that we are witnessing a bumper season of tourist arrivals, it was incumbent upon the stakeholders and the Department to ensure that tourists are attended decently, properly and charged fairly for the services they utilize so that they return back with memories as beautiful as Kashmir is known for.

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

February 23, 2023
Hyderabad: Fraudsters held for cheating elderly of Rs 1.60 Cr

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Hyderabad: A gang of fake insurance policy agents were busted by the Rachakonda cyber crime officials on Thursday.
The fraudsters duped a 72-year-old man of Rs 1.60 crores under the pretext of huge returns on insurance policies.
Mursheed Ansari, 32, Vikas Singh, 28, Tarun Sharma, 35, Manish Tanger, 34, and Lalith Kumar, 27, residents of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh were arrested with section 551/2022 (Arising out of impugned final judgment) of Cyber Crime PS, Rachakonda, imposed on them.
Net cash worth Rs 1,50,000 along with 7 mobile phones, 7 sim cards, 1 HP laptop, 1 hard disk, 1 SSD card, 8 ATM cards, 4 bank passbooks and some other case-related documents were seized from their possession.
According to the police, the victim, a retired employee received a call from a person who impersonated as an insurance policy agent and requested the victim to introduce more people to policies for huge returns.
Accordingly, the victim made 12 of his friends and family members take up insurance following which the gang lured the victim by showing rosy pictures of DDs worth Rs 2 crores, 5 crores and Rs 4 crores, and collected Rs 1.60 crores. He reasoned that they would get 18 percent GST for the span of six years.
Based on the report of the victim, a case was registered which was followed by the arrest of the accused by a special team at Ghaziabad. The accused was brought to Hyderabad on transit remand to produce them before the court for judicial custody.
Modus Operandi by the cops revealed that the accused people used to work in a fake call centre and learned to cheat insurance policyholders.

Later, they decided to start their own call centre to do the same and recruited three others as tele-callers for providing their bank account for withdrawals through ATMs and banks.
The fraudsters purchased the insurance policy holder details from vendors and also procured the SIM cards and bank accounts of others through their associates.
They started contacting policyholders with false promises of getting higher returns on the existing policies and cheated many persons from all over India.
Citizens have been directed to contact helpline number 1930 or register the case on the website to report any cybercrime.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 16, 2023
Man held for cheating hundreds of youth on pretext of roles in web series, TV serials

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New Delhi: A 26-year-old man who impersonated as a director and producer has been arrested for duping hundreds of youngsters on the pretext of providing them opportunities in web series, TV serials and brand shoots, said a Delhi Police official on Tuesday.
The accused has been identified as Anuj Kumar Ojha, a resident of Gopalganj district of Bihar.
According to the police, on October 21, 2022 a complaint was received through the NCRP in which the complainant stated that a person namely Anuj played a fraud on him.
In the complaint, the victim alleged that Anuj told him that he is a director and producer. After seeing the brand paid shoots story on Instagram page, the complainant contacted the accused, who lured him and later the victim also signed an agreement to work together and paid Rs 75,000 when asked by the accused.
“When I made that payment, Anuj said that your advance will be credited to your account in two days but after some time he called me back again and asked for more money for updating profile and income tax etc etc,” the complainant stated.
“The victim paid a total amount of Rs 4,43,142 and after a preliminary enquiry into the matter, a case was registered and investigation taken up,” said Ravi Kumar Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer north).
During investigation, details were sought from Instagram, call details were analyzed and a money trail was conducted but to evade police arrest the accused kept on changing his location.
“On February 6, specific inputs were received that Anuj will board the Tulsi Express and go to Bhopal. Working on this information the team was sent to Bhopal, where he was apprehended while he was trying to escape to Indore. He was served notice under section 41.1 A of Cr.P.C. but he did not cooperate in the investigation and he was arrested thereafter as per due procedure of law,” said the DCP.

“In the investigation done so far it has been noticed that Anuj portrayed himself as director and producer and used to cheat the youngsters in the name of providing them opportunity of acting in brand paid shoots, web series, TV serials etc. He used to cheat them in the name of paying for signing contract, contract fee, artist card, profile updating, GST, Income tax etc,” said the DCP.
Earlier Anuj had been in Gorakhpur jail for three months in a cheating case of 2019. “Several cases and complaints were found registered against his name,” said the official, adding that investigation of the case is in progress.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 14, 2023
Hyderabad: Cyberabad police 3 for loan fraud, cheating public

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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad police’s cybercrime cell apprehended a gang involved in loan frauds. The accused would source bank accounts and SIM Cards on mule identities in Telangana and other states. The gang comprises call center operators, tele callers and suppliers of bank accounts, ATM cards and SIM cards.
According to the Cyberabad police, the arrested persons are Subash Kumar, Shreekant Kumar and Amit.
One of the common methods used by these people is that they put online advertisements for quick loan disbursals using the names of trusted organizations such as Bajaj Finance and mention their contact numbers in the advertisement.
“When somebody clicks on the advertisement or its link, they send them a message or sometimes people call the fraudster’s number given in the advertisement. In the guise of providing a loan, the fraudsters take money from victims on various pretexts like Loan insurance fee, loan agreement charge, GST, Loan processing fee etc.,” said Stephen Raveendra, Cyberabad police commissioner.
He added that people pay up the amount because they think that by paying money, they will get the loans. The money received from victims is taken into mule bank accounts sourced by fraudsters. Later, all payments made by victims are transferred multiple times through various accounts to prevent detection and finally withdrawn, said the officer.
The accused sourced and sold more than 675 mule bank accounts and 725 mule SIM cards and committed fraud.
The Cyberabad police seized 17 debit cards of different banks, three bank pass books, four smartphones and fake loan offer and confirmation letters

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 31, 2023