Arrested.
Arrested.
Three fraudsters who duped big businessmen by showing fake screenshots of online payments have been arrested by the North District Police. Haryana Police has already arrested one of his accomplices in this type of cheating. Their names are Gaurav Aggarwal, 40, resident of Muzaffarpur Bihar, Bharat Bhatia, 38, resident of Noida UP and Javed Sheikh, 42, resident of West Mumbai. Nine mobile phones, dozen SIM cards, three fake Aadhaar cards, 18 debit credit cards, 11 check books and five passbooks have been recovered from them.
According to DCP Sagar Singh Kalsi, several complaints of cheating by showing fake screenshots of online payments from wholesale dealers were received in the last two months. After taking the goods at the shop, the accused used to leave from there by making fake payment. One such complaint was made by a person named Harish Gupta, who told that three people came to his shop and bought clothes worth 1,66,000. He also showed the screenshot of online payment.
The cyber team took the CDR and IMEI number on surveillance. The mobile numbers of the fraudsters were switched off only after taking the goods. It was learned that the accused had gone to Ghaziabad after purchasing the clothes. They were staying at the hotel. Their location was checked and on March 20, all three were caught from the Red Fort area. Five T-shirts were found from them, which they had bought from the shop.
Accused Gaurav Aggarwal was earlier a garment dealer and Javed Sheikh used to sell mobiles. All three are friends and their businesses came to a standstill during the lockdown. He was also in debt. In such a situation, he made a plan to cheat the wholesale dealers. Gaurav and Bharat used to go to the shop and buy goods in bulk. In the investigation so far, four cases of cheating done in Delhi, Jaipur and UP have been linked, in which eight businessmen were defrauded of more than eight lakhs.
