The Ghaziabad police arrested a fraud who was running a fake call centre to mint money in the name of providing job in Indigo Airlines.
The SP City Akash Tomar said that he received a mail from Pranav Tiwari a resident of Allahabad who complained that he received a mail from -recruitment12@gmail.com followed by a phone call from mobile number 8377834952 to provide a job in Indigo Airlines. The caller told to deposit Rs 2,000/- in saving bank account number 36700145988 in State Bank of India as a file processing charges. On the callers demand he reposted the said amount. Again on 6/6/2017 he received a call that an amount of Rs 6,500/- has to be deposited. On his second call he doubted his intension so he refused the deposit the money. After this he instantly mailed his complaint to the Ghaziabad SP City on his mail ID.
On the instruction of SP city the Khoda Police registered the complaint under section 420, 466 of IPC and 66 of IT Act.
On Thursday, on the tip-off an informer, the police raided the hideout place in Deepak Vihar near Vishal Mega Mart and found a call centre was being run from there. During interrogation the suspect told his name Santosh Kumar a resident of Vaishali district in eastern UP. His accomplice fled the spot who was told to be a resident of Noida.
The police recovered seven mobile phones in addition to a mobile phone from his pocket which was containing the SIM of the same number against whom the complaint was lodged. Police further recovered a laptop its charger and a register in which 84 names were found mentioned in their next as their client to mint money.’ “Khoda Police conducting raids in Noida to nab the absconding suspect” said SP City Akash Tomar.