2 men held for befooling people with 'magic pen'

Two men have been arrested for allegedly cheating gullible people on the pretext of providing easy loan on low interest rates and increasing their bank account overdraft limit. The Delhi Police has arrested Mohammed Adil (28) and Nitin Gupta (30) who cheated innocents with the help of a 'magic pen' which they used to give to customers to fill up details in documents and later on removed the ink and encashed the cheque after filling it up as ‘self cheque’.

The police said the investigation has revealed that the accused had cheated eight to ten people and they took `1 lakh from each of them. Adil, a resident of Meerut, and Delhi resident Gupta were arrested by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police. A Honda City car, four mobile phones and several fake identity cards in different names and addresses were recovered from them.

Ravindra Yadav, Joint Commissioner of Police, said that in the recent past, many incidents of cheating on the pretext to enhance overdraft limit in banks and to provide easy loan on behalf of various banks have been reported in Delhi and NCR, in which young boys are reportedly involved.Yadav said that on July 3, the police got a tip-off that Adil and Gupta would come to a mosque in Darya Ganj to cheat a trader and a team was constituted to nab them. A trap was laid and the two accused came on Honda City car and were caught by the police. Police said that during interrogation, Adil disclosed that he, along with his associate Anil Baliyan and Gupta, used to call different corporate customers after taking data from online Yellow Pages directory, by using different mobile numbers procured on the basis of forged or fake IDs. They would offer them to provide easy loans on low interest rates and increase their account overdraft limit and used to approach the needy ones and ask them to provide one cancelled cheque along with other IDs.