The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force has arrested five members of an organized gang for cheating people by impersonating officers of CBI / Narcotics / Crime Branch and making digital arrests.
The members who are Engineers and Science background drop outs were arrested from Gurugram, Haryana, for cheating people by impersonating officers of CBI / Narcotics / Crime Branch and making digital arrests.
Details of the arrested accused:-
1- Pankaj Surela son Kailash Chandra Surela resident of village Khori, police station Bansur, district Alwar (Kotputli Bahrod) Rajasthan age-28 years, education- BSc (gangster)
2- Sagar Singh son Vipin Kumar resident of house no. 30, ward no. 3, Chhota Mohalla Ait, police station Ait district Jalaun U.P. age 24 years, education- B.Tech dropout.
3- Sunny Verma son Kishan Verma resident of house no. 1409 Nandanpura, police station Sipri Bazar, district Jhansi U.P. age 24 years, education- BBA.
4- Anshul Mahor son late Raj Kumar Mahor resident of house no. 687 Kamal Singh Colony, police station Premnagar, district Jhansi age 21 years, education- B.Com.
5- Abhay Singh son of Bablu Singh resident of village Raipurajat Mathura present address Railway Colony, Rani Laxmi Nagar, Jhansi age 21 years, education- BBA.
List of Items Recovered:
1- 6 mobile phones.
2- 2 ATM cards.
3- 1 Aadhaar card.
4- 2 PAN cards.
5- 1 voter ID card.
6- 1 railway medical card.
7- 133 screenshots of WhatsApp pages containing information related to the bank accounts used in the fraud.
As per the UP STF, the police continued to receive information about the activeness of organized gangs that commit fraud by impersonating officers of CBI / Narcotics / Crime Branch and making digital arrests.
In this regard, various teams / units of STF UP were directed to take necessary action. In this sequence, under the supervision of Shri Vishal Vikram Singh, Additional Superintendent of Police, STF, UP, the cyber team at STF headquarters started the process of intelligence collection and activated the intelligence system.
During the course of gathering information, it was found that Dr. Ashok Solanki, resident of Lucknow, had registered FIR No. 142/24 under sections 319 (2), 318 (2) of the Indian Penal Code, 2023 and 66D of the IT Act at Cyber Crime Police Station, Lucknow, that on 20-08-2024, in the evening, when he was returning home from his clinic, suddenly he received a call on his mobile phone, which introduced itself as FedEx Service, Andheri East, Mumbai and informed that a courier has been sent to Iran in the name of Shri Arman Ali, containing 4 expired passports, 1 laptop, 1 pen drive, 4 credit cards, 420 grams of a banned narcotic substance called MDMA and 2 kg of toys etc.
