Indore (Madhya Pradesh): City crime branch arrested a father-son duo and two friends for providing their bank accounts to the gang indulging in duping people put under digital arrest, police said on Monday. The accused received a commission of nominal money from gang members for the same.
The investigation is on to identify the gang members. DCP (crime) Rajesh Tripathi informed media persons that a crime branch investigation team was constituted to arrest the accused indulging in duping people by digitally arresting them. During the investigation, the team reached Maihar and arrested Rakesh Kumar Bansal and his father Chandrabhan Bansal and arrested Prateek Bhai Jariwala and Abhishek Bhai Jariwala from Surat.
The DCP further said that the accused got a commission of nominal money after the gang members had duped a woman of Rs 1.60 crore by digitally arresting her for three days in the city on November 9. They had allegedly provided the bank account of the committee to the gang members so that they could use the account to transfer the money. Rs 10 lakh was transferred from the father-son duo’s accounts and five lakh rupees from Prateek and Abhishek’s accounts.
The accused allegedly confessed their crime. The accused are daily wage and gig workers and had provide the accounts around 4 months ago. The accused are on police remand and the police are trying to obtain information about other members of the gang and other information related to the case.
Full Case
A woman from an industrialist family was defrauded of ₹1.6 crore by scammers posing as RBI and CBI officials. The conmen accused her of involvement in a money laundering case, forcing her to reveal bank details and transfer funds under the guise of “verification.”
Over three days in November, the victim was coerced via Skype, shown fake court and arrest orders, and pressured into withdrawing fixed deposits and selling shares. The police are investigating the case.
