Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): In a breakthrough, Awadhpuri police on Wednesday busted a gang of cyber fraudsters who used to dupe people through an app which deals in providing cars on rent. Police arrested five accused including kingpin of the racket, an MBA graduate, having past criminal records and used to dupe people interested in taking cars on rent in other cities. Mobile, laptops, luxury cars etc worth Rs 2.
50 crore was recovered from them, police official said. DCP Zone-2 Sanjay Agarwal said police received tip-off that five youths living in a flat in Regal Town were involved in suspicious activities. TI Awadhpuri police station Ratan Singh Parihar and his team raided the flat and rounded up suspects.
They were identified as Yash Saluja (27) of Katara Hills, Anshul Priyansh (28) of Jhansi, Mayank Thakur (23) of Chhindwara, Avinash Pandey (28) of Chhatarpur and Sahajpreet Singh (23) of Punjab. Interrogation from the youths revealed that they were involved in duping people on pretext of renting out cars in different cities using an app of a company which provides cars on rent to people across the country. The arrested youths were living in the flat on rent since July 2024 and were committing cyber frauds.
48 mobile phones, tablets, 37 ATM cards The youths were leading a lavish lifestyle and police seized a BMW, XUV 50048 mobile phones and tablets, 37 ATM cards, 8 bank passbooks, currency counting machine, bar code scanner and other electronic gadgets worth Rs 2.50 crore from.
