Gurugram :The Gurugram Cyber Police arrested three persons, including a bank employee working in Punjab National Bank at Jaipur, involved in cyber fraud relating to stock market investments. According to Shatrujit Kapoor the Director General Police Haryana, the state police has busted large number of such cyber fraud gangs active in the state, which also include arrest of as many as eleven bank employees involved in cyber fraud cases so far in past three months . The alleged bank employee used to provide bank accounts to cyber thugs. The accused defrauded a Gurugram resident of Rs 44.57 lakh last month promising solid returns if he invested in the stock market, Sidhant Jain DCP Cyber Crime at Gurugram said.

According to the police, an FIR was registered at the Cyber Crime Police Station East on April 17 on the complaint of a local resident, alleging that he was duped of Rs 44.57 lakh in a cyber fraud. After investigation, a team of Cyber Police led by Inspector Savit Kumar arrested three persons, including an employee of Punjab National Bank Devinder Sharma and two others have been identified as Imran and Hasrat Ali alias Happy, all residents of Jaipur in Rajasthan. During a police investigation, it was revealed that Devendra Sharma working in Punjab National Bank in Jaipur had opened an account in the name of a fake firm on documents provided by Imran Ali and made it available to Hasrat Ali alias Happy. 

The accused revealed that out of the defrauded amount, Rs 1 lakh was transferred to the said bank account. Hasrat Ali alias Happy had sold the above bank account to cyber thugs for Rs 1.50 lakh. In exchange for the bank account, Devendra Sharma and Imran had received Rs 50,000 each. We are questioning the accused, said Siddhant Jain.