New Delhi: Crime Branch of Delhi Police today claimed to have busted an interstate cheaters gang after the arrest of three person who had been cheating innocent people since 2004. They were operating fake offices in different parts of Delhi, from where they offered loans on low interest rates to cheat people. "Police have arrested three persons namely Neeraj Chauhan, Amit Sagar and Sachin Nigam who used to promise innocent people to give loan and cheated them after taking money from them as the service charges," said Neeraj Thakur, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, New Delhi in a press conference today.
A complaint was registered in Crime Branch by Subhodip Ghosal of Kolkata that an agency namely Gayatri Associates at Sant Nagar in Delhi have cheated him. "Based on the complaint police started working on the case and arrested the accused from Amar Colony of New Delhi," said Thakur. "During the interrogation it was revealed that the gang had 12 offices in the Capital and two other offices out side Delhi. They had cheated more than 100 people and collected about 60 lakhs from the victims," Thakur added.
The gang published their advertisement regarding their services in news papers of Assam, Bengal, Maharashtra and Bihar. They only mentioned their mobile numbers in the advertisement and when somebody contacted them, they asked them to deposit the services charges in advance in their account.
Once they got the advance charges they fled away after closing their office.
Anuj Makkad who was master mind of the gang operating the gang from Jalandhar is absconding. Police is making efforts to nab him and other members of the gang. Police has recovered one Skoda car, six mobile phones, SIM cards, computers and various incriminating documents from their possession.
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