DU graduate and telecaller held for running loan scam
THE ACCUSED TOLD THE POLICE THAT THEY USED TO GET FAKE SIM CARDS ISSUED ON FAKE PAPERS TO CALL AND DUPE PEOPLE
NEW DELHI: Police last week arrested three persons for allegedly cheating people on the pretext of providing loans at nil interest.
Police said that in July, a man named Raghav Ram from West Patel Nagar, alleged that he got a call from a representative allegedly of a leading bank and offered him a loan at 0% interest rate. The complainant said he agreed to take the loan as he was in need of money then.
“The caller then asked Ram his PAN card and Aadhar number which he provided. Thereafter, the caller asked Ram to pay ₹10,000 as security money for sanctioning a loan of ₹5 lakh. The complainant alleged that the caller duped him up to a tune of ₹1.44 lakh in six different transactions on the one pretext of getting him the loan,” said additional commissioner of police (crime) Ajit Singla.
Singla said that a few days later when Ram tried to call the “loan officer”, his phone was switched off.
He contacted the bank for clarification and that was when, sensing that something was wrong, Ram approached police and lodged the complaint with them.
“During investigation, the police checked call records and with the help of continuous surveillance, zeroed in on two men - Manoj Kumar and Rahul Sharma. We found that the two were running a fake call centre in Kirti Nagar Industrial area. A raid was conducted at the call centre on November 14 and both were arrested,” Singla said.
“Thirty-two mobile phones and 28 SIM cards, procured on fake identity cards were recovered from the possession of accused persons and from their fake call centre,” he said.
During questioning, both the accused disclosed that they used to get fake SIM cards issued on fake Identity from a man named Tarun Rastogi, said police.
“Last Sunday, Tarun Rastogi, who lives in Krishna Nagar, was also arrested. Two mobile phones and 13 SIM cards were recovered from him,” the additional commissioner said.
Police said, while Manoj Kumar studied BCA from a college in Uttar Pradesh and worked as a telecaller at an insurance company, Rahul Sharma completed his BA from Delhi University in 2017.
In January, 2018 Kumar started a company with the name of MR Solution, which used to call the people to provide the loan. Kumar came into the contact with Sharma and started doing people on the pretext of loan. They then roped in Rastogi, a class nine dropout, who used to sell its SIM Cards and used his SIM cards to make calls to remain untraced, police said.