Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 28: Crime Branch, Jammu has unearthed a gang of inter-State cyber criminals and arrested the accused persons besides recovering an amount of Rs 11, 02,880/ from them, which was looted from the complainant fraudulently.
Crime Branch was working on a written complaint lodged by Arun Bandral, son of Parladh Singh of Ward No. 4 near New Bus Stand, Samba, who was looted on the pretext of providing him job in a multinational company abroad. The victim had
uploaded his resume on web portal naukri.com, upon which he received a call from Expert Noukri Services offering him a job in a multinational company in India/abroad and also gave account number and asked him to deposit Rs 2500/- and then send the deposit slip on company email id service@expertnaukri.com. The said person again called him and asked to deposit Rs 6,500/- as verification fee, Rs 16,800/- as job security fee etc and after few days the complainant received a call from one Aryan who told him that he has been selected in TATA Project Company but has to deposit Rs 25,400/- in the company A/c for the interview.
After few days, he was again asked to deposit Rs 27,890/- on the pretext of qualifying interview and similarly a total sum of Rs 4, 21,280/- was deposited by the complainant from time to time after which he received an offer letter and subsequently an unknown person came to his residence and took photographs of his house and family members on the pretext of his verification. Thereafter, he was again asked to deposit Rs 4.00 lakh and then Rs 5.15 lakh. But even after depositing total Rs 15, 92,380/- in the A/c numbers provided by the accused persons from time to time, neither the job was provided to him nor was his money returned.
On the receipt of this complaint, a case was registered at Police Station Crime Branch, Jammu and the same was entrusted to Inspr Kewal Kishore Gupta. During the course of investigation, the accused were identified as Prateek Sharma of Gaziabad, Gourav Tyagi of Noida, Mani Masih Gill of Ghaziabad and Sandeep Bhati of Gaziabad. After putting in hard out efforts under the supervision of Mubassir Latifi, SSP Crime Branch, Jammu, all accused were arrested from Ghaziabad, UP.
Later, on the revelations made by the accused persons, an amount of Rs 11, 02,880/- was recovered from three of them. However, the investigation of the case is still under progress for the purpose of recovery of the pending amount and to ascertain the involvement of some more persons in the instant case.
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