Two youths have been arrested for cheating dozens of unsuspecting persons by posing as RBI officials and obtaining their debit card details.
The duo would transfer the money to online fund-managing wallets like ‘Oxigen’, ‘Billdesk’ and ‘PayUmoney’ and only later transfer them to bank accounts.
Vicky Soni and Sunil Pandey were arrested from Chhattisgarh by a Delhi Police’s crime branch team. Soni is a BA second year student whereas Pandey is a BCA graduate.
The racket came to the police’s notice on January 11 when a victim complained that Rs.85,000 was withdrawn from his Standard Chartered Bank account.
A case was registered and investigations taken up by the local police before the crime branch stepped in. “From these online wallets, the fraudsters would further transfer the money to two different bank accounts in Chhattisgarh.
They believed police would not care to travel to far-flung areas in Chhattisgarh to investigate these cases,” said Ravindra Yadav, Joint CP (Crime).
The crime branch decided to rush a police team to Chhattisgarh and gather details of the bank account holders from the ICICI Bank and SBI. Soni and Pandey were subsequently arrested from the State and brought to Delhi on transit remand.
The racket came to the police’s notice when a Sarojini Nagar resident complained that Rs.85,000 was withdrawn from his account
