Two people have been arrested for impersonating as custom officials and cheating two people to the tune of lakh of rupees. Deputy Commissioner of Police, IGIA, Sanjay Bhatia, said the accused have been identified as Dinesh (28) and Nazmul Afreen(32) from Nazafgarh and Trilokpuri in Delhi respectively.
“The accused has been arrested for impersonating as customs officials and cheating two complainants of Rs10 lakh and Rs5.5 lakh respectively. They claimed themselves to be customs inspectors and had falsely promised the victims to get their seized goods released from customs warehouse,” said Bhatia.
The accused told the complainants that he will not take anything in advance for facilitating the complainants. Thereby he earned their confidence, said the police official.
After a few days, the accused called the victims on mobile phone and told them that their consignment has been cleared and they will have to deposit the duty. In the name of Customs duty, the imposters took money from them. While one victim gave Rs10 lakh and the other gave Rs5.57 lakh.