3 Arrested From Bihar For Duping On Pretext Of Kaun Banega Crorepati Lottery
The accused having connections with Pakistani nationals had been arrested from Bihar. (Represenatational)
New Delhi:
3 males having connections with Pakistani nationals had been arrested from Bihar for allegedly duping folks below the garb of a ”Kaun Banega Crorepati” lottery, police stated on Friday.
Imtiaz Ali (20), a resident of Bihar’s Siwan, and Irfan Ali (20) and Santosh Kumar (22) of Gopalganj within the state had been arrested on Thursday, all through an investigation in accordance with a grievance through a resident of Najafgarh in New Delhi, they stated.
In her grievance, the lady stated she won a Whatsapp name from a Pakistani quantity and was once advised that she had gained Rs 25 lakh in ”Kaun Banega Crorepati” lottery, police officers stated.
She was once requested her to name every other Pakistani quantity by way of Whatsapp and communicate to at least one Rana Pratap Singh who would give her the main points of the prize cash, they stated.
The girl claimed she was once requested to deposit a number of lakh rupees against GST and processing charges in a couple of Indian financial institution accounts.
Later, she was once advised that the lottery quantity were greater to Rs 45 lakh and on the other hand to Rs 75 lakh and therefore, extra money needed to be deposited. The accused duped her of round Rs 40-45 lakh in all, a senior police officer stated.
“All over investigation, police traced the site of the Pakistani nationals working all of the operation to Islamabad. Their pals had been tracked down in Gopalganj, Bihar, and had been later arrested on Thursday,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (CyPAD) Anyesh Roy stated.
The accused got here to find out about this rip-off in March 2019 as a few of their buddies had been already related to it, the police stated.
They were given involved with the mastermind in the back of the operation, Rauf, a resident of Islamabad in Pakistan, and set to work for him, the police officers stated.
The accused operated a number of financial institution accounts. On receiving cash in those, they might stay 25 to 30 in keeping with cent of the volume as fee and switch the remaining to Rauf via hawala channels, the DCP stated.
On January 17, a person, recognized as Pratap Barik, had dedicated suicide close to the Titlagarh railway station in Kalahandi district of Odisha.
In a video, Pratap Barik had blamed Rana Pratap Singh for duping him of Rs 70,000 within the identify of KBC lottery, the police stated.
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