Govindpur Police has arrested Sumrit Kumar Mandal, a member of the gang who cheated people by asking them to update KY and close bank accounts, from Govindpur Subhash Nagar. Three people including the gang leader escaped. The arrested accused is a resident of Banka district of Bihar. The accused lived in a rented house. Police recovered 10 mobile phones, 32 SIM cards and nine thousand rupees from him. The information was given by Cyber DSP Jayashree Kujur in a press conference at Cyber Police Station on Wednesday. Cyber DSP Jayshree Kujur said that Abhishek Pandey of Nagpur had lodged a complaint on the NCCRP cyber portal that a fraud of Rs 70 thousand was done from his bank account in the name of updating KYC. Another person was cheated of Rs 24 thousand. After the complaint was registered, when the portal checked his location, he was found to be in Govindpur. After that this case was sent to Govindpur police station. Where the plaintiff in the case was Amit Kumar Singh, the police station in-charge of Govindpur. During the investigation, Amit Kumar helped the technical branch to trace the location of that mobile number. During this time, the location of Sumrit Kumar Mandal was found to be Subhash Nagar Govindpur. After which the police formed a team and conducted a raid and Sumrit was arrested. Police said that Kundan Kumar Mandal, Pradeep Kumar Mandal, resident of Deoghar and Tulsi Kumar Mandal of Giridih of the gang are absconding. In this, Pradeep Kumar Mandal is the leader of this gang. Raids are being conducted to arrest the absconding accused.
Used to download any desk app to carry out the incident
Police said that the thugs used to talk about updating KYC. After that the bank threatens to close the account. When the mobile holder falls into their trap, they send him a link on his mobile and make him download the AnyDesk app. After that, with the help of the link, a form is filled in which the account number and card details are filled. In such a situation, when they have the complete details of the card, they withdraw the money from their bank account. Sometimes they also cheat people by asking for OTP.
All four were living on rent for six months.
Police Told that all four had come to Govindpur together with the promise of getting a job. After that they had rented the house of Sameer Das of Subhash Nagar. They told Sameer Das that they were looking for a job. For this reason the house has been taken on rent. Those people did not live here regularly. They used to go out for 10 days each. Sumrit told that after committing fraud he used to withdraw money from ATM. After that he used to give it to the kingpin. The mastermind kept 60 percent of the fraud. They distributed the remaining 40 percent among themselves.