Four Youths from Jharkhand Arrested by Bengaluru Police in Online Fraud Case

Team Udayavani, Jul 26, 2017, 1:12 PM IST

Bengaluru: Bengaluru Crime Investigation Department (CID) police arrested four youths including two brothers inconnection with online fraud case. In a big surprise, the police have found confidential details of 16,000 bank customers from Jharkhand Bokaro based accused, Sushil Kumar Suman (23), Kapildev Suman (19), Suraj Kumar (19) and Biplav Kumar (23).  The accused cheated number of innocent online customers, users to collect cash worth in lakhs from them, the police said.

The accused had 28 fake bank accounts and confidential information of 16, 000 bank accounts. The police also seized 4 fake PAN cards, 460 SIM cards, 15 cell phones, a laptop, hard disks, data cards, memory cards, fake identity cards and others from the gang members.

The youths used to get confidential details of bank customers from fake websites created by them to steal the key details of bank account holders. The accused reportedly created fake electronic commerce company on the internet to distribute electronic items at low price to the online customers. The culprits used to get bank account details from their customers when they enter their bank details to get the assured items from the website created by the gang.

The gang was arrested as police started investigation following a complaint registered by a car driver on July 13 who became victim of this planned online fraud.   The police formed 3 teams to crack the fraud case and arrested Kapildev in Bengaluru. Subsequently, a police team moved to Jharkhand and arrested other members of the gang.