KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Jan 18: Acting on a complaint, the police busted a gang of cyber criminals from a village under the Chakulia Thana area in the Ghatsila sub-division of the district.
The arrested persons have duped scores of gullible people, especially unemployed youths by means of App and portal through Telegram in the rural areas of the East Singhbhum district during the past couple of years.
Probe on, police expect to arrest more
Those arrested were identified as Navin Chandra Mahto, Ramchandra Mahto, Rahul Mahto, Ajay Dalai, Sujay Dalai and Jai Sengupta, all residents of Purnapani village in Chakulia.
Revealing about the breakthrough, the SP (Rural) Rishabh Garg while addressing a press conference on Thursday said that they busted the gang of cyber criminals having received a written complaint on Wednesday.
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“Though we have already arrested six criminals for running the racket, the investigation into it is still on and we expect more people may be nabbed soon, ” said Rishabh while addressing the press conference.
Fake task-based money-making scheme
Speaking about the modus operandi of the crime, the Rural SP said that the criminals would give some tasks to those who would approach them for monetary gain following advertisements put up by the gang.
“Initially, the gang would provide the victims an opportunity to earn dividends on the small deposits against each task. Gradually, the criminals would ask for more deposits necessary for earning more money. And when the criminals accumulated huge amounts having gained the confidence of the victims, they made themselves underground having wound up the racket, ” the senior police officer narrated.
All six arrested persons were produced in front of the media during the press conference before they were forwarded to judicial custody.
