A Notorious Cheat Arrested for Duping Gullible People on False Promise of Providing VIP/Fancy Phone Numbers
With the arrest of one Akshay Kumar Aggarwal (23 yrs) s/o
Shyam Aggarwal @ Ghanshyam r/o Junnardev, PS Daumua, Distt. Chhindwara (MP),
Crime Branch has worked out a cheating case registered vide FIR No. 45/15 u/s
420 IPC, PS Crime Branch.
On 11/02/15,
a complaint was received at Special Team of cheating of Rs. 4 lac by one Akshay
Shyam Aggarwal on false promise of providing VIP/ fancy mobile phone numbers.
The complainant, Sh. Yogesh Gupta was tempted to such numbers and he was lured
to pay Rs.4 lac for two VIP/fancy mobile numbers. The complainant was informed
that such fancy numbers are being provided by a company “Number Vault Pvt. Ltd”.
The complainant transferred Rs.4 lac from his account to the account of Akshay
Shyam Aggarwal. A case vide FIR No.45/15 u/s 420 IPC, PS Crime Branch was
registered in this regard.
On the basis of specific input, it transpired
that the accused Akshay Shyam Aggarwal is residing somewhere at Salt Lake,
Kolkata, West Bengal. Accordingly, a team headed ACP Ranbir Singh and consisting
of Inspr. Satyawan, SI Rishi Ram, HCs Anil, Virender, Azad Singh and Ct Himanshu
was constituted under the leadership of DCP Dinesh Kumar Gupta to nab him. The
police team went to Kolkata and after making sustained efforts, arrested accused
Akshay Kumar Aggarwal from Vindhachal Lodge, Salt Lake, Kolkata on 10.7.15. The
accused was got remanded to police custody and an amount of Rs.3 lac has been
recovered from Raipur, Chhattisgarh at his instance.
On sustained
interrogation, it was revealed that the accused was a student of Symbiosis
College of Engineering, Pune, but he could not complete his degree due to bad
company and financial problems. He developed craze for subscribing VIP/Fancy mobile
phone numbers and took a chance adopt it as a profession. He has gathered good
knowledge about VIP mobile phone numbers/series through computer and retailers.
He would send bulk messages having fancy series under header “BH-VIPNOS”. The
interested persons were allured to purchase such VIP numbers. During the
conversation, he used to project himself as owner of a company named “Number
Vault Pvt. Ltd”. The gullible persons would deposit the required amount in his
account. As soon as the amount was credited in his account, he would cut all
sorts of communications with that person. He had cheated Yogesh Gupta, Kailash
Aggarwal and one Nitin in this manner as per investigation conducted so far. He
has opened various accounts in State Bank of India, Bank of India and Oriental
Bank of Commerce at Bhopal.
He is also
involved in a similar case of cheating registered vide FIR No. 119/15 u/s
406/420/465/467/468/471 IPC, PS Satellite Ahmedabad (Gujarat).
RECOVERY:
-
1.
Rs.3
lac cash.
2 mobiles
phones used in commission of crime.
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