New Delhi, Oct. 26 -- The Delhi Police have busted a cyber fraud syndicate linked to transactions worth over Rs 30 crore, which allegedly cheated a Delhi University student under the pretext of selling clothes on social media.
The police were informed about the incident through a complaint registered at the Cyber North Police Station.
According to the police, the case came up after a Delhi University student was allegedly duped out of Rs 6,450 while trying to buy a kurti on the social media platform.
The case was registered at Cyber Police Station, North District on September 4 after a complaint was received by the police from Fatima, a student of Ramjas College, University of Delhi, who resides in Allahabad.
The complainant ordered a product worth Rs 799 from an Instagram account 'Kavya_kurti_hub'.
She paid 400 rupees as advance but was asked to pay 1,150 rupees, 2,000 rupees, 2,650 rupees and 650 rupees as pass code for the parcel delivery and refundable charges. However, no parcel was delivered to her and she did not get her money back.
Using cyber tools and by analysing almost 200 mobile and IMEI numbers, bank transactions and digital files, police were able to track down the flow of money in the case.
Six accused were arrested on October 16 from Greater Noida and one more on October 21 from Kanpur.
The accused are Aditya Mishra (23), Ayush Verma (22), Abhishek Pal (23), Rahul Kumar (30), Himanshu Rana (29), Udit Pratap Singh Bhadauriya (22), and Gaurav Pandey (24), who is an MBA.
During the investigation, it was found that around 25 fake company and personal bank accounts were opened by the accused.
Over 30 crore rupees credit transactions were traced by police using these suspected accounts. So far 27 cyber fraud complaints have been linked with this case from various states.
During the raids, police recovered 20 mobile phones, 45 SIM cards, 39 POS machines, 33 debit cards, 28 cheque books, 15 scanners, 2 laptops and bank documents.
Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from Millennium Post.