Gurugram: The Cyber Crime team from Gurugram during night in a raid exposed an illegal call center operating in Badarpur area adjoining Faridabad where fraud was being committed through this call center in the name of providing loans and innocent people were being cheated by trapping them in their net. During raid eight accused including six women employees were arrested from the spot identified as Raju Mandal a resident of Gajraula Kalan in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit district currently living in Vishwakarma Colony in Delhi, Rohit Kumar a resident of Delhi’s Mittal Colony and Rosy a resident of Yakubpur village in Uttar Pradesh, Gyanati a resident of Auraiya district presently living in Badarpur. Police recovered 25 mobile phones and an Airtel WiFi dongle from the possession of arrested accused who were produced in the court on Friday, from where they were sent to Bhondsi jail in judicial custody.

Assistant Commissioner of Cyber Crime police Gurugram Priyanshu Diwan succeeded in exposing more than 50 fake call centers in the past sometime said that on February 4 this month, a complaint was received at the Cyber Crime Police Station, Manesar. The complainant was duped of about Rs 18,000 in the name of file charges, DD and other charges by calling from different numbers posing as a representative of Axis Bank. He said, since then ian nvestigation was going on. Information was received that the accused had committed the crime while sitting in Badarpur area of Delhi. Based on the information, a team was formed under the leadership of the in-charge of Cyber Crime Police Station Manesar and a raid was conducted. when eight accused were caught from the spot itself. The accused used to commit fraud by calling people and getting money transferred in the form of various charges in the name of getting a loan. Information revealed that the accused used to get salary and commission from the defrauded amount in return for this work. The accused were running a call center since May last year and committing fraud.