Fake Call Centre busted at Zirapur by Chandigarh Police

Chandigarh – 22 September:

Cyber Crime Investigation Cell, Chandigarh of Chandigarh Police has achieved a major success in busting a racket of fake call centre running in Zirakpur, Tricity area. For this under the supervision of DSP/CCIC, a special team was deputed by Inspector/CCIC, headed by SI Sunil Kumar and others cyber crime officials in case Case FIR No 190 dated 21.09.2020  U/s 419, 420, 120B IPC, PS 34, Chandigarh, to apprehend the criminals involved in cheating & Insurance Fraud.

          The brief of the case are that CCIC had received a complaint given by Sh. Nirmal Singh R/O Sector 44  Chandigarh , in which he stated that he had received mobile phone call in June 2020. The caller discussed about his old insurance policy and asked that Rs. 25,000,00/- of his insurance policy are balance  at their end and if he wants to claim the same amount then he need to deposit documents fee etc. and after their allurement he deposited approx Rs. 1654000/- in different accounts in different banks. Complainant received calls from different mobile numbers made by the accused persons. Later on he realized that he has been cheated for sum of approx Rs. 1654000/- on the pretext of maturity of Insurance policy by fraudsters by misrepresentation. Further, one more complaint of similar modus operandi made by Ajudhya Dass Rajpoot R/O Sector 42 was also received regarding fraud of Rs. 200000/- on the pretext of Reliance Nippon insurance policy maturity.

          During the investigation, accused (1) Yogesh Verma S/o Sunder Lal, # 19, G.F., Green Field Home, Kishanpura, Dhakoli, Punjab, Age 38 years (2) Pranav S/o Kulbhusan , # 556/1 B.C. Bazar, Near Arya Smaj School , Ambala Cantt., Haryana (3) Manish Kumar Rai S/o Gyandendra Kumar, # Flat No. 120 A-5, Gulmohar        City Extn., Derabassi, Mohali, Punjab (4) Subham Bhardwaj S/o Vijay Bhardwaj, # 2660, 1st Floor, Sunny Enclave, Sector 125, Mohali, Punjab (5) Arjun Yadav S/o Jai Narain, # 496, Rajiv Colony, Sector-17, Panchkula, Haryana (6) Rakesh Kumar S/o Shankar Rajak, # 412, Vill Jahawarpur, Derabassi,  Mohali, Punjab have been arrested on 21.9.20 from tricity area and during investigation, 4 Lakh cash and approximately 30 mobile phones along with SIM cards of different service providers and 10 registers/ diaries have been recovered from the above accused. During investigation it has been revealed that the above mentioned accused have set up a call center in Zirakpur and used to target the senior citizens who had purchased insurance policies from different companies and allured them to deposit money on the pretext of huge amount of maturity of their policies. Accused were produced in court today and their police remand for 03 days has been obtained.