Bhopal

Crime Branch exposes fraud in name of admission to British University

PNS

The criminal, who cheated lakhs of rupees in the name of getting admission in British University by creating a fake mail ID online, is in the custody of Crime Branch Indore.

The accused had cheated the complainant in the name of applying for admission in a British University by creating fake provisional degree and migration by editing it through his mobile and laptop.

 In various admission processes, he used to repeatedly ask for money through fake mail and if not given, he used to say that penalty will be imposed and admission will be cancelled.

The accused used to continuously demand money from the complainant and her family members in the name of depositing the fees in the British University and threatened to spoil her career if the money was not given.

Indore police commissioner Rakesh Gupta  has directed senior officials  to take effective action against the criminals who commit financial fraud and earn illegal profits by cheating the common people. In accordance with the above instructions, the Crime Branch team was continuously keeping an eye on the people of the fraud gang and effective action was being taken by continuously collecting information confidentially regarding the people involved in their activities.

In this sequence, on 22.02.2024, the Crime Branch team was informed by the complainant Chandni Shirodkar, aged 26 years resident of nanda nagar Indore. A written application was submitted by  in which the complainant Chandni Shirodkar told that after my college graduation, I was giving the examination to go out for higher education, during this time my friend Saurabh Khemaria helped me in the admission. He was doing my direct admission, so he created my application through UCAS, then selected the college and after selecting a college, the process progressed further and I started receiving mails from the university. That you have to pay for it. He used to mail me every day asking me to pay money for this thing otherwise penalty would be imposed and used to demand and threaten money again and again. I used to get admission.uclan@gmail.com from uclan university and the mails I got from British Council were from Britishcounsil.ucasad@gmail.com. Being troubled by all these things, I inquired about this and came to know that all these mails are frauds. Till now I have given more than Rs 3 lakh 12 thousand- to Saurabh. He has neither got me admitted in the British University nor is he giving me my money back, he has cheated me.

In the observation and investigation of the complaint made by the complainant, it was found that the accused Saurabh Khemaria, aged 22 years resident of M.I.G., C Sector, Manya Complex, Kailash Nagar Bairagarh, Huzur, Bhopal, present Location - Hotel Kshipra Scheme No. 54 Vijayanagar Indore.

  And about 3-3.25 lakh rupees were embezzled from his family members by fraud. Since the act of the accused was prima facie found to be under section 420,465,467,467,471 of the Indian Penal Code, the crime was registered and taken up for investigation.

The police team has searched and arrested the accused Saurabh Khemaria, against whom advance legal action is being taken on the basis of investigation and inquiry. ADCP Crime Branch Indore Rajesh Dandotiya told The Pione'er that information is being conducted to find out whether he has committed similar fraud with other people also.