Delhi police busts gang involved in cheating 2100 people across India

The Cyber police team of Delhi’s Shahdara district made a massive crackdown against a pan-India fake website and cheating gang with the arrest of seven persons from Delhi-NCR and Bihar. The accused were found to be allegedly involved in cheating with as many as 2100 people across the country with the help of a fake website.

The accused have been identified as Mohammad Raja alias Sahil (26), Vikas (28), Mohammad Suhail Ansari (26), and Ankit Yadav (26), all residents of Delhi, along with Kanhaiya Kumar Mahto alias Praful Patel (19), Bihari Paswan (22) and Ajeet Kumar Paswan (23), all residents of Bihar. Among all the seven accused, Mohammad Raja and Mohammad Suhail Ansari were the owner and co-owner of the firm.

67 cases were found registered across the country having direct links with cheating racket

A total of 67 FIRs were registered across the country having direct links with the fraud racket. The police have recovered 11 mobile phones, more than 100 SIM cards procured mostly on fake identities, 3 laptops and other items. The accused operated a firm namely Family Help for web solutions to execute the pan India cheating racket.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara), Rohit Meena said, “On October 7, 2023, a case was registered at the Cyber police station of Shahdara district. Complainant Vijay Pahwa alleged that he was looking to buy an Ola electric scooter which he was surfing online. He went through a website on which electric scooters were available. Upon ing the link, the complainant got one contact number and as the complainant contacted the mobile number, the person on the other side assured him to sell scooty online and sent him various models of scooty for selection. The complainant was thereby trapped on their false assurance and paid a sum of Rs 1,15,560 to the alleged persons and thereafter accused persons stopped responding to him.”

Following the registration of the case, a dedicated team of Cyber Police Station, Shahdara collected the call details of the calling numbers and other technical details regarding the online transactions. After the analysis of the details, a raid was conducted at Jain Nagar located in Delhi’s Karala, where four members of the group were Md Raja, Vikas, Md Suhail Ansari and Ankit Yadav arrested.

“The accused got their company registered in the name of family help to create websites but in the garb of legitimate business he started making fake websites in the name of Ola Scooty, Patanjali, Medicines etc for cheaters of whole of India like Bihar, West Bengal etc and earned good income from this,” the DCP said.  

After further technical analysis, a raid was conducted at Bihar’s Warisaliganj and three accused namely Bihari Paswan, Ajeet Kumar Paswan and Kanhaiya Kumar Mahto were arrested.

Modus Operandi of the gang

DCP Rohit Meena stated, “Accused Md Raja, Vikas, Ankit and Suhail Ansari used to create fake websites, which includes a replica of famous websites like simple energy, Patanjali, Helicopter booking etc under the banner of company ‘Family Help’ which were sold to fraudsters at high rates to cheat people. 

The accused Ajeet Kumar and Bihari were calling agents, who used to call complainants and trap them into buying Ola electric scooters and getting transferred amounts in the name of selling the scooter.