Man posing as bank official held for `7 lakh fraud

Delhi Police has arrested a man for allegedly posing as a bank official and duping a man of `7 lakh on the pretext of granting him loan in southeast Delhi.

The accused, Devender Singh, a resident of Ghaziabad was nabbed with the help of technical surveillance. Police has also recovered two mobile phones, four batteries, seven ATM cards, cheques, cash worth `17,000 and a car from the possession of the accused.

According to Gyanesh Kumar, the additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Sanjeev Kumar Gautam, a resident of Jeewan Nagar area reported on June 10 that a person named Ashish contacted him through mobile on the behalf of ICICI Bank for giving loan.

“Ashish sent a man named Abhishek to his house to collect the KYC documents. But Gautam asked Abhishek to collect the said documents from his factory in Okhla. Thereafter, Abhishek collected the said KYC documents along with six cheques of two banks from Mr Gautam’s factory,” said the additional DCP.

“The next day, when the complainant tried to contact Ashish, his phone was switched off. On being suspicious, he contacted the banks and found that `7 lakh was withdrawn from his accounts via cheques. Based on his complaint, a case was registered under section of cheating and forgery at the Sun Light Colony police station,” said the DCP.

“A trap was laid on June 29 and the accused was arrested from his house. In interrogation, it was revealed that the accused came in contact with Neeraj and Kamal Sharma, both residents of Modi Nagar in Uttar Pradesh. They cheated people using fake identity. Devender also joined them and started cheating innocent people on the pretext of granting them loan,” said the DCP.