Man held last week is Pak gang member: Cops
Jaipur, Feb. 11 -- A 30-year-old man arrested in Hanumangarh for fraudulent bank account transactions has emerged as a key handler for a Pakistan-based cybercrime gang under investigation by police in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
Hanumangarh superintendent of police (SP) Hari Shankar said, "The incident came to light during his interrogation and further analysis of his transactions. We are now checking where he sent the money and how many more people from India were involved in the racket."
According to police, the accused, Hardeep Singh, a resident of Dabli Rathan village, contacted a woman from Lahore on a social media platform in 2021, and they started a relationship. "She put him in touch with the cybercrime gang, which operates from various cities in Pakistan. As per their requirement, Hardeep used to gain the confidence of local villagers to use their accounts as the medium for transactions," said the superintendent of police.
Last October, he persuaded a villager, Rajpal Singh, to let Hardeep use his bank account to receive a large sum of money after his own account was blocked. "Rajpal's account was meant for his disability pension scheme. When transactions of unusually large amounts of money were made using his account, it immediately alerted the police," said the SP.
The Hanumangarh cybercrime unit began tracking the transactions and found Rajpal's account was used by someone else for a transaction from Pakistan. "However, we had not identified Hardeep yet," SP said.
Hardeep was arrested last week by the Hanumangarh cyber police station after another individual lodged a complaint, following the discovery of unusual transactions in his account. "During interrogation, it was found that Hardeep used to visit villages across Rajasthan, where he used people's accounts for such transactions. We have also received complaints from the Jammu and Kashmir police and Madhya Pradesh police as he travelled to these two states and followed the same modus operandi," said Shankar.
Police said Hardeep has used more than 200 accounts and has been booked for cheating and under BNS and relevant sections of the IT Act, said Shankar....
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