Palwal: 1 held in online loan, gambling scam

Palwal, August 27

The cyber cell of the district police has claimed to have busted a racket of online loans and gambling with the arrest of one of the accused. The accused was reported to be involved in as many as 181 incidents of cheating in several states, according to an official.

Inspector Navin Kumar, cyber cell in-charge, said the accused, identified as Vikram, alias Vicky, was nabbed by a team of the police on Monday. The accused had been operating an online racket in the name of providing loans and had been involved in a gambling scam in the name of a ‘teen patti’ game played online.

The initial interrogation revealed that the accused had been a part of a gang that had cheated as many as 181 persons in the past couple of years through the racket. Though the exact figure of the money cheated in the racket is yet to be revealed, the amount involved is reported to be several crores, according to sources.

Kumar said the police had launched a probe in response to a complaint lodged by one Akash, who lost an amount of Rs 8.24 lakh in the name of getting a loan online recently. The cops nabbed the accused on the basis of technical surveillance and inputs developed by the cell.

Besides Vikram, two other persons, including a woman were found to be involved in the gang that had committed several frauds in Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala and Uttarakhand.

The accused was taken on three day police remand for further interrogation. The remaining accused are likely to be arrested soon, the police official said.