2 held for duping people on pretext of cheap air tickets

A city resident’s family trip to Kerala turned out to be nightmare after he lost Rs 50,000 by clicking on a link offering cheap air tickets. The police have arrested two fraudsters in this regard. The accused — Tanuj Agarwal, (28), and Tanveer (28) — gave their bank account details to some Chinese nationals, whom they met on social media, in lieu of money, the police said. The bank account was being used by the Chinese national to carry out fraudulent transactions. A total of 25 complaints were linked to the account. The incident came to light after a man, a resident of Civil Lines, lodged a complaint on the National Cyber Reporting Platform that he lost Rs 50,000 after clicking on a link offering cheap air tickets. After the complaint, a case was registered at the Cyber North police station, an official said. It was found that the complainant’s money was transferred to a account of UTM Tourism Services Pvt. Ltd., being run by Agarwal. Following this, he was arrested from Dehradun.

Agarwal said he gave his account to Tanveer, who earlier resided in the same locality but now shifted elsewhere. A technical surveillance was launched and Tanveer was arrested from Deoband, UP, the official said. He disclosed that he came in contact with some Chinese nationals through Telegram app and offered them to provide bank account details in return of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.5 lakh per account.

In greed for easy money, he contacted Agarwal, who resided in the same locality, and agreed to share account details with a Chinese national in exchange for Rs 65,000 through the application, the official said.