Khanna police nab 22 for cyber fraud

The Khanna police claimed to have cracked two major cyber fraud cases, involving a total sum of over Rs 6 crore that was duped by cybercriminals, and arrested 22 suspects. These arrests were made in the past weeks by the police on several occasions.

The amount was stolen from two people on the pretext of opening a trading account and by resorting to digital arrest of the complainants, respectively. The police also recovered Rs 14.34 lakh cash from the accused.

On February 19, Sanjeev Pandhi, a resident of Machhiwara, told the police that on June 24, 2024, unidentified persons messaged him on the Telegram app and made him open a trading account with a firm named Admiral Markets Global Ltd. Between December 18, 2024, and February 10, the victim transferred Rs 3.72 crore to various accounts and later realised that he was cheated. A case was registered against the suspects, Khanna SSP Dr Jyoti Yadav said.

SSP Yadav added that during the investigation, it was found that Pandhi had transferred about Rs 21.20 lakh to a fake company named BOSSS Trading which belonged to Gurjot Singh, a resident of Salana, who was arrested on May 29. During Gurjot’s interrogation, he revealed that Sammuksh Bhatt, a resident of Mohali and a bank official, had opened the current account for BOSSS Trading at the behest of Baldev Krishan of Zirakpur and Parvinder Singh, alias Tony, of Chandigarh. Consequently Tony was arrested on May 29, 2025. Based on his interrogation, Neeraj Singhania, a resident of Dubai; Sarita Singhania, wife of Neeraj Singhania, a resident of Ludhiana; Amritpal Kaur, a resident of Mohali; and Rahul Sagwan, a resident of Ludhiana; were named as accused on June 7, however, their arrests were still pending.

The SSP said that during the investigation it was revealed that Rs 4.92 lakh was transferred to the account of Beant Kaur, wife of Lovepreet Singh, a resident of Moga. Upon the interrogation of Beant; Prabhjot Singh, Gurvinder Singh, Amol Singh and Shivinder Singh were named and arrested and Rs 4.92 lakh was recovered from them. During the interrogation of Shivinder, a tip from the bank details of Sahil, a resident of Ludhiana, led to the arrest and naming of Anmol Chauhan and Prince, both residents of Ludhiana. An amount of Rs 4.43 lakh was recovered from them, hence a total recovery of Rs 9.35 lakh was made.

SSP Yadav revealed that in the second case, on August 6, Mahender Pratap Singh Gill, a resident of Machhiwara, stated that on June 10, an unidentified person called him, posing as an inspector and forced him into digital arrest and made him transfer Rs 2.65 crore into several accounts. During the probe, the police arrested six accused identified as Taranmit of Mohali, Gurvir Singh of Mohali, Kuljit Singh of Jalandhar, Sanjit Mittal, Gurpreet Singh, Amritpal Singh and Mohan Singh of Jalandhar for orchestrating the crime.