Seven members of cheating gang arrested from different states

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police are on their way to bust a cheating racket operating across the country and have arrested seven members of the gang.

Police said that a complainant Vikas Solanki stated that Rs 10,57,500 was debited from his account and transferred to the account of one Landmark Construction in Kolkata through a cheque, without his knowledge.

Cops registered an FIR in the case and found that a cheque had been stolen from Solanki's office. Soon, Ashish, one of Solanki's employee was interrogated,and he accepted to having passed on the cheque to one of his associates Deepak.

Deepak was arrested and he disclosed that he sent the cheque to one Rishikesh in Sahibganj, Jharkhand.

DCP (West) Vijay Kumar said that Rishikesh was then arrested form Lalganj, Bihar, a Naxalite-prone area.

On interrogation, Rishikesh disclosed that he gave the cheque to an Probal Sengupta in Kolkata.

Later, Sengupta was apprehended and he revealed that he used to send stolen cheques to his associate Satender Sharma in Titagarh near Kolkata.

A trap was then laid by the Delhi Police team to nab Sharma near Titagarh.

However, Sharma instead sent one of his associates Raj Kumar to collect the cheques, who was instead arrested. More arrests are being made to bust this multi-member gang.