Gurugram, Gurugram police have arrested two associates of a cyber-fraud gang for providing SIM cards to the group, which allegedly duped people via K files by threatening to terminate their gas connection, officials said on Tuesday.
This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text. After clicking the link, a payment portal resembling Razorpay opened, where they were asked to pay ₹ 12. suspicious transactions took place involving their bank account, resulting in a cyber-fraud of ₹ 1,64,900, the complainant said While using a credit card to make the payment. During the investigation, police arrested two accused Nirmal Kumar alias Vijay Kumar and Gopi Kumar Yadav, in Bihar’s Banka district on October 16 and recovered two mobile phones with SIM cards used in the crime. After obtaining transit remand, the police produced them before a Gurugram court on October 18 and took them on one-day police custody remand, they said. Yadav subsequently sold the SIM cards to another person for ₹ 1,500.
“During police interrogation, it was revealed that the SIM cards used in the crime in the case had been provided by Nirmal, who had fraudulently obtained these SIM cards in the name of another person and provided them to accused Gopi Kumar Yadav for ₹ 1,000,” the Gurugram police spokesperson said. The accused had previously sold SIM cards that were used in similar fraudulent activities, the spokesperson said.
Based on the complaint, a case was registered, they added.
