DESPERATE CHEAT ARRESTED FOR DUPING SEVERAL INNOCENT PERSONS ON THE PRETEXT OF GIVING DATA ENTRY WORK WORTH CRORES OF RUPEES AND GOT DEPOSIT LACS OF RUPEES IN HIS ACCOUNT AS SECURITY MONEY

With the arrest of a very soot cheat namely Abhishek Raj aged 30 years s/o Anand Bihari Saran r/o 52 Bigha, Road No. 4, Village Laxmi Sagar, Darbhanga, Bihar, the staff of Police Station Okhla Industrial Area, South-East District has busted a gang involved in duping many gullible persons to carry out data entry work worth crores of rupees by depositing a specific amount in his account as security money.  A case of cheating in which he duped Rs. 74 lacs (approx.) from two different companies has been solved and other similar cases are like to be solved.

INCIDENT    

One Ms. Poorvi Prasad Joshi w/o Sh. Prasad Joshi r/o Naupada, Thane, Maharastra (Proprietor of M/s Stellar Consultants # Shivkripa Commercial Complex, Bh. Waman Hari Pethe, Thane-400602) filed a complaint with PS Okhla wherein she alleged that in the year 2015, accused Abhishek Raj alongwith his wife Smt. Pooja Sinha and other associates through their company M/s Step 1 E- Business Pvt. Ltd. dishonestly induced her to deposit Rs 4.5 lacs as a security money on the pretext of giving work orders of Data Entry worth Rs 1.23 Crores, which he claimed to have received from his different foreign clients but later the alleged persons closed their company and decamped.  

          In another complaint, the accused persons through another fake company M/s G-Next Global Services by adopting a similar modus operandi, deceived another company M/s Amets Software Pvt. Ltd and induced the director of the company Sh. Sushil Patil to deposit Rs. 69,67,000/- as security money on the pretext of giving work orders of data entry worth Rs. 4 Crores approximately, which he claimed to have received from his different foreign clients. Later, they closed their company within three months and decamped.

On the basis of above complaints, a case vide FIR No.73/2016 u/s 406/420/467/471 IPC, PS Okhla, New Delhi was registered and investigation was taken up. 

TEAM AND INVESTIGATION  

Keeping in view modus operandi of the cheats, it was clear that they were very clever who had left no clue to follow them. Besides, it was also possible that there might be other victims of this gang. Therefore, a special team led by Inspr. Atul Kumar Verma SHO/Okhla comprising of SI Sanjeev Kumar, HC Narender, HC Ravi, Ct. Nabtej, W/Ct. Pinki Sharma and W/Ct. Shakuntala was constituted under the supervision of Sh. Jasbir Singh ACP/Kalkaji.

          During course of investigating, it was revealed that there was no clue about their whereabouts and the mobile phones used by them were not in service. However, after persistent efforts, the police team cracked his whereabouts by analyzing Face book and other social networking sites and it was revealed that accused Abhishek Raj was living in Bihar. The police team was immediately dispatched to Bihar and raids were conducted at several places. The team stationed there for several days and finally on 05.04.16, accused Abhishek Raj was apprehended from the area of PS Lalit Narayan, Mithila University, Prangan, Darbhanga, Bihar. He was taken to Delhi and his PC remand was obtained further interrogation and recovery of embezzled amount.

INTERROGATION & MODUS OPERENDI

On sustained interrogation of the accused, accused Abhishek Raj disclosed that he had made false representation to the complainants of the above case as he had never received any work orders from any foreign client and he along with his accomplices had caused wrongful loss to the complainants and other victims for several crores of rupees as the victims had paid salaries to the persons engaged for feeding of fake data entry work.

          Accused Abhisek Raj had adopted a unique modus operandi for cheating people in the name of providing work contract.  He had opened two fictitious companies viz. M/s Step 1 E Business Pvt Ltd. and M/s G Next Global Service and his modus operandi was to allure the innocent people under the garb of providing data entry work to the Indian companies about the projects which he claimed that he had got assignment from foreign companies i.e. U.K and USA. He took security amounts Rs. 5 to 10 Lacs from the companies/persons. He used to trap gullible and unsuspecting company owners by assigning work of data entry and changing PDF file to Excel for which he had protected password software. But he never paid any money to the companies against work, instead he blamed them for incomplete and inaccurate work done and thereby used to usurp the money taken in the name of security amount in his account. In the above case, two companies M/s Stellar Consultants and M/s Amets Software Pvt. Ltd have deposited security amounts approx. Rs 75 lakh and did data entry work for Rs.5.23 crores for accused person but the accused did not pay any money to these companies and later, ran away from Delhi after closing his offices.

It is strongly suspected that accused had cheated several other persons by using the same modus operandi since some more victims are approaching PS Okhla with similar complaints. Further investigation is under progress.

PROFILE OF ACCUSED   

The accused has passed B.Com. from Darbhanga, Bihar. In the year 2002, he also did B.Sc. (Information Technology) from Karnataka and thereafter, he came to Delhi and worked in BPOs from 2003 to 2010. He also worked in a private company engaged in event management. He is a computer savvy and knew very well how to trap the companies by inviting them to deposit security money by providing lucrative offers.