A 31-year-old engineering graduate from California in the Unites States (US) has been arrested by the district police for duping a Gurugram based resident via online fraud worth of Rs 50,000 earlier in the month. A mobile and some fake documents have been recovered from his possession.
The accused was produced before the local court on Thursday which sent him judicial custody. The accused has also served a jail term in Uttarakhand in a similar type of case and spent two and half month in custody.
The accused has been identified as Sumit Mehndiratta, a resident of Faridabad. According to police, the accused has completed his B-Tech in computer science and was employed with IT firm at California in US from 2013 to 2016. He was also employed in Expedia an IT firm located in the cyber city in Gurugram in 2017 but quit his job. He used to do online trading along with the job.
A complaint was registered against him on October 17 which was filed by the victim Himanshu Batra a resident of Sector-23 in Gurugram.
In his police complaint, he stated that the accused make a fake facebook ID of his friend’s name Achintya Singh and sent a message to him via facebook messenger that he needs some money. So he deposited the amount in an account number which was provided by the accused. But later he ascertains that he was duped by someone.
“During the interrogations, the accused reveals that he has some marital disorder with his wife and want to earn quick money that’s why he committed the crime, the police said.
“The accused has duped several people including NRIs. The accused used to make fake facebook profile of the victim’s relatives, friends and duped them. “The culprit was arrested on October 18 and was on police remand for the past six days. A mobile phone which he used in the crime has been recovered along with some fake documents”, Gurugram Police spokesperson, Subhash Boken said.
Further probe into the matter is underway,” Boken said.