Gurugram: While addressing media persons, Siddhant Jain, Deputy Commissioner of police said that with the help of ‘Pratibimb’ portal of the Union ministry of home affairs they conducted a raid in which eight persons running a fake gaming were arrested after a raid on a fake gaming call centre in Koyal Vihar in Sector 52 at Gurugram on Monday night. The arrested accused were identified as the mastermind in the racket Sunil Kumar alias Sonu (42) a permanent resident of Fatehabad, Tarun (20), Pawan (24), Arshdeep (27) all residents of Hijrawakalan ( Fatehabad), Parasdeep (19)resident of Sirsa, Deepak (21) resident of Hisar, Himanshu (20) resident of Jind and Rajinder (37) resident of Riasi (Jammu & Kashmir). Priyanshu Dewan of cyber crime cell said that Sunil the head of this call centre used to pay Rs 25,000-30,000 salary and 2% commission to all suspects functioning for the past about year.

Investigation reveals that the modus operandi was to dupe money from people under the pretext of investment in gaming platforms for winning jackpots with the help of a suspect from Sri Lanka. Priyanshu Dewan said the investigation is underway to determine the identity of the other foreign national involved in cheatings. He said that one of the suspects’ victims from outside Haryana had lodged an online cyber fraud complaint on the 1930 helpline. Police
 seized 28 mobile phones and three laptops from the suspects and will share the information recovered with the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre, which will clarify how many people across the country were duped by the gang of cheats and how much money was stolen. 

Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects were operating several fake bank accounts in which their victims had deposited money via UPI. Arrested accused were produced in the court and remanded to police custody for two days.