2 NOTORIOUS CHEATS ARRESTED

Crime Branch has apprehended 2 notorious cheats (i) Rajesh Kumar (31 yrs) s/o Bhagwan Singh, r/o 1078 Jahangirpuri, Delhi, and (ii)  Kamal Choudhary (30 yrs) s/o Shyam Lal Choudhary, r/o Gali no.21, A-40, Mahendra Park, Jahangirpuri, Delhi for cheating 2 unemployed youths of Rs.11 lac on the pretext of providing  loan of Rs 22,00,000/ each  sanctioned under  Prime Minsiter Employment Generation scheme.

INCIDENT:-

       Several youths of Pune, Maharashtra had received SMS on their mobile phones that they have been selected for unemployment loan facility scheme launched by Government of India. In response to the SMS, one Gajanand Vinayak Wagh contacted the caller, who assured Gajanand, that he is entitled to get a loan of Rs. 22 lac and asked to deposit Rs. 5,02,500/- in a bank as security money which is refundable, after the loan gets sanctioned. They further added that the scheme has been launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India to provide loan to the unemployed youth to set up their own business.

     Once the victim deposited the required amount in the bank, the cheat further asked to deposit more money in the name of file charges, CA charges, Insurance policy or Banking charges etc. Victim further deposited around 6 lac in the account as suggested by the caller. When even thereafter, the loan was not sanctioned, he realized that he has been duped and filed a complaint at PS Kondhawa, Pune and a case vide FIR No.251/16 u/s 419/420/34 IPC was registered at PS Kondhawa, Pune. During investigation, calls were traced to different places of Delhi.

OPERATION:-

              A team of Pune Police arrived in Delhi and sought assistance of Crime Branch in locating and arresting  notorious cheats. The team assisted by ISC/Crime Branch led by ACP Sanjay Sehrawat consisting of Inspr. PC Yadav, SIs Gurmeet Singh, Manoj Tomar,  Cts Virender, Ajay, Rahul, Pravin and Parminder was constituted under the overall supervision of DCP Bhisham Singh to nab the accused.

      After intense search, the accused persons were traced at Laxmi Nagar area, where they were doing business of daily news paper in the name of “SAKSHAM MEDIA”, and also running a call centre for tele-calling innocent unemployed persons in the name of Prime Minister Employment Generation Scheme offering them loans under this scheme. The team identified the accused persons and apprehended them.

During search of the office, several Sim Cards issued on Fake IDs, Mobile phones used to commit the crime for tele-calling the victims along with other incriminating documents related to script/pitch have been recovered from the accused persons. 

INTERROGATION:-

Interrogation of the accused persons has revealed that during the conversation on phone, the caller used to cite a lucrative deals to the unemployed youth, where in they used to tell the interested unemployed youth that the loan is being released from the office of Govt. of India. For the first 6 months, they do not require to refund any money in the form of installment. Once the money in the name of security and on other pretexts was received by the cheats, they would switch off their mobile phone. Further enquiries revealed that one Rakesh Bhardwaj is the mastermind of the racket.  Both the accused persons are working for Rakesh Bhardwaj, who is publishing a newspaper from Delhi, Dehradun, Varanasi and Gorkahpur in the name of Saksham Bharat. Rakesh Bhardwaj also keeps 2 armed personnel security officer (PSOs) for his safety and uses them to overawe the victims.

Kamal and Rajesh are residing in the Jahangir puri area and got issued sim cards on fake IDs. Rakesh Bhardwaj was looking after the bank accounts and withdrawal of money from ATMs. Interrogation of accused person has revealed that the gang has cheated hundreds of innocent person with the same modus operandi. The gang used to target the people residing in far states such as Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

PROFILE:-

1.        Rajesh is a graduate from Jabalpur University and hails from a small town of Madhya Pradesh. He came to Delhi in search of job in 2007. He tried his luck in various fields but failed, which led him into debts. Later he joined the Domestic Call Centre in Laxmi Nagar, Delhi and stumbled across the concept of cheating in the name of various schemes launched for the benefit of poor educated youths, through Rakesh Bhardwaj. With the passage of time, he learnt all the knacks to win the interested parties through conversations. He found it to be lucrative and slipped into the world of crime.

2.      Kamal was born and brought up in Delhi. He dropped out of college. Thereafter, he began to work as salesman in the garments factory, but the meager income could not satisfy his ambitious attitude to become a rich in a short time. So, he left the job, and started looking for the job in which he can make easy money.  During this period, he came in contact with Rajesh and joined the call centre being run by Rakesh Bhardwaj.