Police arrest three for duping people on pretext of offering MUDRA loan
   Date :09-Sep-2020

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 Accused conmen along with seizure in custody of police.
 
 
Staff Reporter :
 
RAIPUR,
 
In a major breakthrough, Raipur Police have busted an interstate-gang indulged in tricking people on the pretext of offering loan under ‘MUDRA’ scheme, insurance company, finance and others, by arresting three gang-members. “Three members of an interstate gang conning people on the pretext of offering loan and benefits of government schemes were arrested from Bulandshahr district in Uttar Pradesh. With modus-operandi similar to ‘Jamtara Gang’, these conmen have cheated large number of people in Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and other states, worth several crores,” said Telibandha SHO Ramakant Sahu, who has additional responsibilityof Cybercell.
 
Moreover, the gang also cheats people on the pretext of GST filing, income tax return, renewing LIC and increasing limits and other, added the Inspector. SHO Sahu further informed that the arrested fraudsters were identified as Neeraj Kumar (31), Anandswaroop (19) and Chandraveer (33), all natives of Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district. From the possession of arrested conmen, police have recovered six mobile handsets, three debit cards, three Aadhaar cards, two PAN cards, laptop and pendrive. Notably, the gang has recently duped a city-based youth identified as Piyush Kumar Dewangan (23) to the tune of around Rs 1.45 lakh on the pretext of offering loan worth Rs 5 lakh under MUDRA scheme.
 
Following the complaint of the victim, Urla police have registered an offence under Section 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) of IPC and launched a probe. “Following the directives of SSP Ajay Yadav, details of amount deposited in the bank account were collected. Based on technical analysis of collected evidence, police investigators learnt Delhi as possible whereabouts of the conmen following which a team was dispatched to Delhi. Later, separate teams camped in Delhi, Bulandshahr and Ghaziabad,” said SHO Sahu, elaborating that the bank account numbers, mobile number, PAN card, Aadhaar and other documents mentioned by the fraudsters during the forgery were turned out to be bogus. The conmen were frequently changing their locations, added Inspector Sahu.
 
“While raiding the possible whereabouts of the gang, police personnel eventually nabbed three members of the gang in Bulandshahr. During interrogation, the trickster admitted of cheating several people in Chhattisgarh and other Hindi speaking states to the tune of several crores on the pretext of offering MUDRA loan. To trap people, the gang has floated advertisements on popular platforms including Google, YouTube, Facebook and others,” Inspector Sahu said. To win the confidence of people, the gang has prepared large number of bogus stamp papers, cheques, loan certificates and other documents in the name of companies including Max Life Insurance, MUDRA loan, Indiabulls, Ganesh Finance, Laxmi Finance, Shriram Finance and others, which they forward to the victims Impressed by the investigation, SSP Yadav has announced a cash reward of Rs 20,000 for the probing team, Sahu informed.