Three arrested for loan fraud

Three arrested for loan fraud
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City cyber crime police on Monday arrested three persons including India Info Line Manager in Delhi on charges of cheating innocent public by collecting money from them on the pretext of providing loans against insurance policies.

Hyderabad: City cyber crime police on Monday arrested three persons including India Info Line Manager in Delhi on charges of cheating innocent public by collecting money from them on the pretext of providing loans against insurance policies.

In May 2016, cyber crime police received a complaint from Mir Ahmed Ali (29), an Auto CAD designer from New Mallepally stating that he was duped by some unknown persons of Rs 2.15 lakh. The complainant stated that he received calls from unknown persons who claimed to be employees of Exide Life Insurance Company and offered loans of up to Rs 40 lakh, if he takes policies of various amounts. He believed them and deposited Rs 99,999 and Rs 1.15 lakh in two installments, but later the executives did not respond to his calls.

During investigation, the police analysed the Call Data Records (CDRs) of the numbers from which the victim received calls and by using the bank accounts in which the amounts were deposited, a team of cyber crime police went to New Delhi in second week of June.

“The team led by Inspector P Ravi Kiran apprehended Vishal Singh (30), territory manager in India Info Line at New Delhi, Hari Shankar Singh (29) and Ramlal Singh (30), all from New Delhi. They were picked up for questioning basing on their call data and bank accounts,” said Detective department DCP Avinash Mohanty in a press note.

The DCP said that basing on the accused persons’ confession the team recovered Rs 9.1 lakh in cash, four ATM cards of different banks and produced them in a court at New Delhi. They were brought to the city on transit warrant for further investigation.

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