Nine members of a gang extorting money from people under the guise of loan offers have been arrested by the Cybercrime Cell of the Gurugram police.

The gang offered loans via the app 'FINSARA' and subsequently coerced the victim into paying money by threatening her with sending their morphed pictures to their contacts. 

The police said a woman lodged a complaint that she had taken a loan of Rs 3,000 through the app and when she failed to pay the loan. A few days later, the victim started receiving messages, asking her to repay the loan amount. The suspects harassed her by uploading her dirty posts on Facebook and repeatedly posting objectionable photos on WhatsApp and threatened to send the photos to her family members if she did not pay the money.

The police said during the investigation, they nabbed Gaurav Wadhwa, Rahul Jain, Rohan Palha, Rohit Kumar, Brijendra Singh, Pawan Kumar, Avnish Giri, Shishu Kumar, Vivek from Udyog Vihar in Gurugram on Wednesday.

During interrogation, the accused, revealed that Rohan, Gaurav and Rahul are the owners of the company/app FINSARA. Rohit Kumar is the manager, Brijender Singh and Pawan Kumar are the team leaders and Avnish Giri, Shishu Kumar and Ritesh are the recovery agents and work in giving loans to the people through the loan app.

"To recover the loan from people who do not repay the loan, they hired people who used to recover money by morphing the victim's photo and threatening to send it to social media platforms and their family members if the loan is not returned. For this, team leaders get Rs 25,000 per month and recovery agents get Rs 14,000 per month," Priyanshu Diwan, ACP (cyber crime) said.