Delhi Police busted a racket of three persons who cheated innocent people of Rs 15 lakhs. The accused identified as Vishal Nath, Tarun Sharma and Dinesh falsely induced customers of a teleshopping channel to submit money on the pretext that they have won lucky draw and that they need to submit money to claim their prize. Police recovered forged letter heads of the Complainant company and other incriminating documents from their possession.
According to the police, they received a complaint from a tele-shopping channel alleging that some unscrupulous persons were falsely inducing customers of the channel into believing their false claims and have made them deposit money towards TDS charges, processing fee amounts in fake bank accounts. The accused persons carried out these acts by using the registered logo of the complainant company by portraying themselves as representatives of the complainant company.
During investigation, police found that the accused sent forged letters of a telemarketing channel to its customers informing them about their name being selected in lucky draw/lottery of the TV channel and advising them to deposit TDS amount/processing fees in the bank account provided by them. The gullible victims were told that they have won LED TVs, motor vehicles and they will receive the prizes after depositing the TDS and processing fee.
Investigators traced that the dispatched letters were being deposited at a particular post office for dispatch to gullible victims. Based on which, a team of cops laid a trap and nabbed the accused from their house in Mandawali.