The Delhi police crime branch Special Operations Squad (SOS) arrested three persons who were alleged involved with an inter-state gang and cheated people by offering fake loans at lower rates. The gang allegedly used to give advertisement in local regional newspapers to lure the victims.
The three accused are Neeraj Kumar Chauhan (29), who posed as the supervisor of their fake firm, Amit Kumar Sagar (29) and Sachin Kumar Nigam (26). Neeraj has graduated from Delhi University; the other two are classmates, who are school drop out. As per police report all three are residents of Tagore Garden in west Delhi. But police have to still arrest the key player of the gang, Anuj Makkad, who has been carrying out operations illegally from Jalandhar and had a major share of the service charges as a share for providing knowledge about the operation.
According to Neeraj Thakur, DCP (Crime and Railways), the gang advertised about its services in several dialect and regional newspapers in states like Assam, West Bengal, Bihar and Maharastra. “They used to offer loans from banks and they would charge a commission of 1-2 per cent of the total amount as their service charge in advance. The gang would rent an office and would mention only their mobile numbers in the advertisements. Most of these were from Assam and West Bengal. Until now, we have found the total fraud to be over Rs 60 lakh and with over a 100 people, mostly small-time traders, having fallen prey to this group,” said DCP Thakur.
DCP Thakur told that most of the victims sent their documents through couriers to their office after doing a brief verification. After few days, the alleged cheats would call up their victims and asked them to deposit their service charges, after which their loan will be sanctioned soon. They used to give their bank account numbers or took service charges in cash. The accused used to operate for five months and after that they would close down their office and disappear. The gang has been carrying out operations since 2004 and till now have changed 15 locations, out of which 13 are in Delhi, added DCP Thakur.
He told the gang was very careful that no Delhiite is included in their clientele. “In this manner, they avoided any detection,” he added.
The crime branch got a complaint from Subhodip Ghosal, a Kolkata resident, against one Gayatri Associates, having base in Sant Nagar near Amar Colony, in this regard. The police took the help of technical surveillance to trace the mobile phones and arrested the gang members.
“Various incriminating documents, one Skoda car, six mobile phones, SIM cards, rubber stamps and computers and accessories were confiscated from them. We are investigating the case and are on the lookout for Makkad and another associate of the group,” said DCP Thakur.
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