Cracking a whip on rising number of cases which involve defrauding people, the cyber cell of the Uttarakhand Police has arrested two persons. A person named CS Jeena had lodged a complaint at Kotwali police station recently that he was defrauded of Rs12.67 lakh by some people who persuaded him on phone to invest in insurance policies and other investment tools.
Taking cognizance of the complaint the Inspector General (IG) Garhwal range Sanjay Gunjyal had directed the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Cyber Crime cell of police to take prompt action.
On the order of SSP cyber crime, P Renuka Devi a team led by Additional Superintendent of Police was constituted which thoroughly examined the call details and bank accounts in which the money was transferred. The police team found that the account numbers were opened by the culprits on the basis of false and forged documents.
The team gathered concrete evidences against the culprits and arrested Rajshree Guha a resident of Sector-52 NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh and Bulandshar UP resident Hridesh Sharma. The duo has accepted their involvement in cheating Jeena. The police team has recovered an amount of Rs5.70 lakhs from Rajshree and an amount of Rs3 lakhs from the possession of Sharma.
The police team consisted of Inspector Ashok Kumar Tyagi, Sub Inspector (SI) Bharat Singh, SI Vinod Chourasia, SI Rajiv Semwal, two head constable and five constables.
The senior SI Kotwali police station K C Bhatt also assisted the team of cyber crime branch.