Director of Gurugram based Profit Network company and three others were arrested by the Haryana police in connection with an online fraud case in which they have cheated 4,800 people of Rs 8 crore. Three bank accounts of the company which had about Rs 90 lakh were frozen by the police.
The accused has been identified as Raj Kumar Sharma of Surat , Daulat Singh of Jaipur, Bharat Kumar of Alwar and Ajay of Bhiwani.
According to officials in the police department, the arrests were made based on a complaints by Vijay Singh of Rewari and Amit Kumar of Sonipat. The duo has filed complaints against the company on February 14. Soon after this, a special investigation team was formed and all the four accused were nabbed from Rajiv Chowk, Gurugram on February 19. An FIR was filed under various sections of the IPC .
The complainants were members of the company from January 23, 2017 and had transferred Rs 2.5 lakh to the company account. On interrogation, the accused admitted that the company was started by them in July 2016 and they have duped about 4,800 people of Rs 8 crore by making them its members. The company had told people to deposit money in its bank account, which had ample link of websites. To earn profit, members had to like the web links sent by the company. The company had promised to pay Rs 5 per like.