CHANDIGARH POLICE-CYBER CRIME NEWS

Team of Police Station Cyber Crime busted a Gang of fraudsters with arrest of 02 accused in FIR No. 23 dated 05.03.2023, U/S 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B IPC, PS – Cyber Crime, Chandigarh under supervision/direction of Ketan Bansal, IPS, SP/Cyber Crime, Chandigarh, close guidance of Mridul, IPS, Addl. SP/PS-Cyber Crime, UT, Chandigarh and leadership of Inspector Ranjit Singh, SHO, PS-Cyber Crime, Chandigarh.

Detail of Accused-

SN	Detail of Accused
	Amarjeet Singh S/o Ram Kishan, # 1, W.no. 15, Adrash Colony, Near Mail Water Supply, Assandh, Karnal, HR, Age 31 Years
	Kuldeep Pannu S/o Rameshwar, VPO Sisai, Tehsil Hansi, Distt Hisar, HR, Age 30 years.

Brief Facts of Case:-

The present case has been registered on the complaint of Mr. Arpan Sharma , Branch Manager, Federal Bank, Sector 22 C Chandigarh. In which he reported that he received a call from an unknown mobile number, while he was driving. The caller pretended to be their client Mr Rajesh Makkar and he told that he need to transfer the payment on urgent basis and he can share the detail over the phone/Whastapp and original documents will be shared later. After that Mr Arpan Sharma shared the same number with his staff Mr Aditya Verma and asked to speak with Mr Raj Makkar on same number to get his queries and do the needful. After that Mr Aditya Verma called on said mobile number and alleged person pretend himself as Raj Makkar and he asked to transfer the payment. Then he shared the detail of accounts in which he wants to transfer the funds on whatsapp with Aditya Verma as asked to execute the same on urgent basis. His photograph on watts app was same as their client Mr. Rajesh Makkar. On this he executed the transactions in accounts provided through whatsapp. Later when he again asked to do the transaction, they got some suspicious and confirmed through mobile number of Mr Rajesh Makkar which was registered in his accounts, Where he told that no such instructions were given to anyone to transfer the funds and he asked us to report the same with police. Later he deleted all the chat he did with Mr Aditya Verma including his Profile pic on whatsapp. He stated that the accused defraud the complainant bank with Rs. 1892000/-. .

Bakshi Bros. Sec-19C, Chandigarh, M. 9888369900

During the course of investigation CAF and CDR of alleged mobile number obtained and found that the location of the said number is in the area of Delhi NCR. Further, bank statement of the account of Mr. Rajesh Makkar (Federal bank) obtained and found that Rs. 957000/- have been transferred in Indusind bank and Rs. 935000/- have been transferred in Canara Bank. Bank statements of alleged bank accounts obtained and after scrutiny of bank statements found that some gold was also purchased through cheated amount and rest amount was withdrawn through ATM’s in Delhi NCR,. From the scrutiny of documents found that the mobile numbers registered in alleged banks are in the name of Manish Kumar, Rajaram Meena, Sonu Kumar, Arjun Singh and from the scrutiny of CDR’s and IMEI numbers of alleged numbers found that multiple sim cards are using In these IMEI’s and all the sim cards are in the name of Manish Kumar, Rajaram Meena, Sonu Kumar, Arjun Singh and location of the all sim cards is in Delhi NCR and Assandh, Haryana area. On the basis of technical surveillance and upon secret information on 16.3.2023 raid was conducted at Delhi NCR and Asandh, Karnal, Haryana. During the course of investigation alleged Amarjit Singh and Kuldeep Pannu were arrested by the sincere efforts of Police Station Cyber Crime, team headed by SI K.D. Singh, HC Bahadur Lal, HC Rajender Singh, HC Balwinder Singh, C Baljeet Singh. Both accused were produced before the Hon’ble Court and their police remand till 20.3.2023 was obtained.

Master Minds:

During interrogation found that accused Amarjeet Singh, Kuldeep Pannu are the master minds and their associates withdraw the cheated amount from banks and they used their documents to open the bank accounts and to obtain the sim cards in their names for cheating purpose. During interrogation accused Kuldeep Pannu and Amarjit Singh disclosed that they were also involved in two other cases of cyber loan fraud, one case is registered in Rajasthan and other case is registered in Sahranpur, U.P (Victim of the said case was suicide due to over burden of loan) and they are bail out in both cases. After bail out in both cases, in August, 2022 they constructed new gang with their associates Pankaj, Ashish, Ankur Jindal, Ravi again, with new modus operandi. They cheated the various banks i.e. Federal Bank, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Bank of Baroda, Yes Bank, Axis Bank etc. in all over India with approx. Rs. 2 Crore.

Use of fraudulent amount:

Purchase Mahindra Thar
Purchase Gold rings, chains

Modus Operandi:

During the course of investigation, it has found that the accused obtain the details of two Wheeler/ Four Wheeler vehicle agencies through google and after that they obtain the bank detail/ Cheque of agency by contacting the Sales Manager/ Managing director of the agency and after that they morphed the cheque for cheating purpose. After that they contact with concerned branch manager of bank in which said agency’s account is operated and send the same cheque through whatsapp by stating that there is an emergency and transfer the funds in given account and due to reputation of agency concerned branch manager transfer the funds.

Recovery from accused: –