Cyber fraud: 27 arrested for duping people of over Rs 157 crore in Gurugram

The Gurugram cyber police have arrested 27 cyber fraudsters, including a minor, in the past two months for allegedly duping hundreds of people across the country of over Rs 157 crores. Officials have recovered 17 mobiles, three SIM cards and two debit cards from them.

The accused were identified as Shashank Punia, Pushpendra Singh, Ankit, Kamran, Ahamad, Shravan Kumar, Chand Shah, Deepanshu, Vishal, Ajay Kumar, Jyoti, Kapil Hooda, Vikas, Tarun Rathi, Yashvardhan Singh, Rohit Sikarwar, Gaurav, Mantu Kumar, Pushpendra Kumar, Bablu, Ramendra, Suraj, Varsha Thakur, Vinod Kumar, Pinder Kaur and Sukhpreet Kaur.

During the investigation, the police found that the accused would dupe people by creating fake IDs on Instagram and commit fraud by promising profitable returns on investment, besides being involved in digital arrests, KYC-related fraud and task-based fraud.

“A total of 14,633 complaints and 611 cases are lodged against these accused across the country. Of these, 28 cases are registered in Haryana, including six in Gurugram,” said Priyanshu Dewan, ACP (Cyber).