Inter-state cyber fraud gang busted in Rewari, Five held

With the arrest of five persons from Bihar, the Cybercrime Unit of the Rewari police claimed to have unearthed a major cyber fraud gang involved in duping people across the country. They were, as claimed by the police, involved in 82 cases of cyber fraud across various states.

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The police recovered 36 bank passbooks, 55 checkbooks, 35 account kits, 39 mobile phones, 98 ATM cards and 14 SIM cards from the accused.

Rewari SP Mayank Gupta said the accused were identified as Haraprasad Biswal of Maharani Colony, Patna (originally from Shukla village, Puri district, Odisha); Beenu Nayak from Shankarpur village of Puri; Raju kumar of Jehanabad district in Bihar; Manu Kumar of Arwal district in Bihar; and Rahul, alias Sunny, of Bhaisani Tola in Patna.

“Rahul, alias Sunny, one of the accused, is already being interrogated by Bihar's Economic Offenses Wing in a separate case. Upon examining documents seized from the accused, it was revealed that they were involved in 82 such cyber fraud incidents across different states of the country. We will now interrogate the suspects further during their remand to uncover more details about other cyber fraud activities linked to this gang,” said the SP.

Sharing the information about the gang, Gupta said a complaint was filed by Vedprakash of Muserpur village stating that he received a phone call on January 9 from an individual who told him about an app that would allow him to access all banking services directly from his mobile phone.

“After installing the app, a sum of Rs 5.23 lakh was debited from his bank account. On investigating, the money was found to have been transferred to the account of Haraprasad Biswal of Patna. Then, a police team from Rewari cyber police station was dispatched to Bihar to conduct a raid there. After reaching there, Haraprasad along with the other gang members, including Beenu Nayak, Raju Kumar, Manu Kumar and Rahul, alias Sunny, were arrested from a single location,” said the SP.