Faridabad: Inspector Basant’s team, in charge of the Cyber Station NIT, managed to arrest 6 suspects of the gang involved in 1,169 fraud incidents across the country.
Defendants arrested include Yuvraj Singh Bagga aka Sunny, Avinash and Chetan Saurav aka Kallu, Vikram Singh aka Vicky, Abhishek aka Nonni and Shivam aka Shibu. Those arrested are residents of Uttam Nagar, Delhi.
A cyber thug gang committed a cyber thug incident on a resident of Faridabad by tricking him into downloading an APK file in the name of a Bajaj Fisurve Company credit card. A case was registered against the 6 defendants who were arrested on February 1, 2023 at the Cyber Police Station NIT. The main accused, Yuvraj from Gurugram, was arrested and taken into police custody for 10 days. The accused Avinash and Chetan and Sourav were arrested in Delhi and held in police custody for 8 days. Defendants Shivam aka Shibu Abhishek aka Nonni and Vikram aka Vicky were also arrested in Delhi itself.
On February 1, 2023, a case was registered in the CyberPolice Station NIT in the fraud sections. In it, victim Ali Hasan said the accused cheated him out of 1 lakh 49 thousand 137 rupees. Based on the victim’s complaint, the investigation of the case was initiated by registering a case at the police station.
Cyber Police team led by Station House Officer Inspector Basant arrested 6 suspects involved in the case using technology from Delhi NCR area.
In this case, the defendants Yuvraj, Avinash, Saurabh, Vakrim, Abhishek and Shivam were arrested and confiscated Rs 1,20,000 and 4 mobile phones while in police custody. The defendant collected the person’s information by phone and contacted this person and let them download the APK file to give them the Bajaj Fisurve Company credit card. Defendant Yuvraj Singh, Avinash aka Chetan Shivam aka Sibbu and Saurabh aka Kallu committed another incident and Avinash aka Chetan and Saurabh aka Kallu committed another cyber fraud incident in Punjab.
Police interrogation revealed that defendant Yuvraj is the main defendant and defendant Avinash tricks people into his fake by calling them. Tracing the cell phone found by the defendant revealed that the defendants were involved in 1,169 cyber fraud incidents across the country. 34 in Haryana including three incidents in Faridabad, along with maximum 374 in Uttar Pradesh, 114 in Gujarat, 100 in Delhi, 23 in Chhattisgarh, 88 in Telangana, 81 in Rajasthan, 79 in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu 47 in Bihar, 29 in Karnataka, 23 in West Bengal, 22 in Punjab, 20 in Uttarakhand, 16 in Madhya Pradesh, 16 in Orissa, 15 in Kerala, 15 in Andhra Pradesh, 12 in Jharkhand, 11 in Assam, 11 in Chhattisgarh 6, 4 in Tripura, 4 in Himachal Pradesh, 2 in Meghalaya, 2 in Pondicherry and 1 in Jammu and Kashmir. After the conclusion of the police pre-trial detention, the accused were brought to prison after being brought before the court.
