Habibganj police have nabbed three fraudsters involved in duping victim by purchasing goods using cheque of closed bank account; two cars, paints containers were recovered from their possession on Friday.
Police said that the accused were nabbed after victim Sanjeev Kapoor lodged complaint that accused have provided cheque of closed bank account for making payment of paints purchased from him. The accused have provided a cheuqe of amount of Rs 92,468 and after the cheque got dishonored victim came to know about the fraud and lodged complaint.
Based on the complaint police lodged a case under section 420 of the IPC and started further investigation and nabbed the accused identified as Manjeet Sharma alias Gaurav Trivedi (37), Gopal Yadav (20), Dheeraj Sharan(34) and Pranav Saxena(38).
After receiving the complaint during the investigation Manjeet was found involved in the fraud and was nabbed which revealed the nexus working in duping of the victims.
The police have recovered cars which were used to carry goods obtained from victims fraudulently.
Providing the modus operandi police said that the nabbed accused used to commit fraud and use cars with fake registration numbers and would collect the goods bought using cheques and later sold the goods at low price at remote areas.
The main accused Manjeet hails from Indore and is currently staying in TT Nagar area while three others are residents of the state capital. Police suspects that the gang has targeted several other victims in different parts of the state and which would be investigated.