Swami Prasad Maurya, who had quit the Yogi Adityanath cabinet and joined the Samajwadi Party just ahead of the recent Assembly polls in the state, denied that the man had been working for him.
According to the police, Pramod Singh initially borrowed Rs 27.5 lakh from the firm to purchase a Mercedes Benz car and paid the initial installments.
The police have recovered 19 mobile phones, 14 registers and copies containing the details of applicants and their payments and further investigation is underway.
The accused were found operating the call centre without any valid documents, a police officer said.
Based on the technical details brought out during investigation, it was also found that a large number of people across the country have become victims of these fake websites.
A man was sentenced to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for allegedly repeatedly raping a 23-year-old woman and cheating her.
They along with others procured details of US residents using illegal techniques, VOIP calling and caller ID spoofing, and extorted money, promising to save them from legal action, police said.
During a raid conducted late Thursday night, the police arrested these people who were working in different illegal call centres in the satellite township of Salt Lake.
Those arrested have been identified as Vikas Jha (31), a resident of Tilak Nagar, Vicky (27), a resident of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, and Avinash Kumar (36), a resident of Bijnor in UP, they said.
Delhi police has arrested a college student for cheating people on the pretext of providing them Remdesivir injections.
Dwarka Police on Friday arrested a man named Ayush, who reportedly claimed to provide black fungus injections, and later blocked people after procuring money from them.
At least 34 people have been arrested for duping foreign nationals in the name of social security number, apple technical support and McAfee antivirus support. The accused were running two illegal call centres from the same building in Uttam Nagar, targeting foreign nationals.
Five people have been booked for allegedly collecting donations for the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya through a 'fake' local outfit.
Mumbai Police are in the process of filing a case of misappropriation and cheating against car designer Dilip Chhabria over a complaint lodged against him by comedian Kapil Sharma a few months back for allegedly duping him to the tune of Rs 5.30 crore, which he had paid for manufacturing a vanity bus.
The CBI has booked Kewal Krishan Kumar, MD of the company, and other directors Siddhrath Kumar and Sunanda Kumar, on a complaint lodged by the SBI, officials said.
The Delhi Police has arrested Vishakha Gulati, a resident of Sarita Vihar, in an alleged government job scam case. According to victim's version, Vishakha informed him that due to coronavirus pandemic, the government did not conduct fresh open recruitment in government jobs and that Delhi government has authorised her to recruit.
The Sports Authority of India (SAI) on Friday said that the Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested three persons, including a former kabaddi player, for fleecing athletes through a false advertisement for Khelo India Games.
The ongoing Coronavirus crisis has resulted in a number of online frauds such as phishing, thus, duping people
A 22-year-old man was arrested for allegedly cheating Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel on the pretext of donating plasma to coronavirus patients, police said on Monday.
The Nadia District Police has arrested a man from Jharkhand for allegedly duping a trader of over Rs 6 lakh by giving false advertisements about dealerships of a company in the social media, an officer said on Thursday.
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