Police arrested Dilip, Vipin, Durgesh, Sumit and Rahul for faking a robbery of Rs 8 lakh cash. They conspired with Pawan who is one of the co-owners of a call centre based in sector 62 of Noida.
The police arrested five persons on Wednesday for falsely claiming robbery of Rs 8 lakh. These people alleged that their money was robbed just outside the bank from where they had withdrawn it.
Police arrested Dilip, Vipin, Durgesh, Sumit and Rahul for faking a robbery of Rs 8 lakh cash. They conspired with Pawan who is one of the co-owners of a call centre based in sector 62 of Noida.
Dilip, Vipin and Durgesh are all natives of Faridabad in Haryana. Sumit is a native of Amroha and Rahul is resident of Mayur Vihar Phase 3.
Police is also looking for Pawan and Rupesh who are owners of the call centre and are currently absconding after police’s raid at the call centre on Wednesday evening.
Police said that Dilip, Vipin and Durgesh have accounts under fake names at different banks in Delhi, Noida and Faridabad. They offer these accounts to people to deposit their money without any scrutiny or required documentation and they take 13 per cent of the total deposited amount.
“Similarly, they had one fake account in ICICI bank of sector 18 and it was lent to Pawan and Rupesh, owners of unregistered call centre. It was Pawan who approached Dilip and asked him to withdraw Rs 8 lakh cash from their joint account in the bank and stage a fake robbery complaint so that he can keep the share of Rupesh. He promised to pay Rs 2 lakh to the trio as their cut,” said AK Singh, superintendent of police (city).
On April 5, a robbery of Rs 8 lakh was reported outside ICICI bank in sector 18 market place where Durgesh and Vipin had alleged that few unknown persons had snatched their bag full of cash worth Rs 8 lakh at gun-point.
“After the robbery, we had asked Durgesh and Vipin to reach sector 20 police station to submit a complaint for a first information report. But the duo never reached the station and after 20 minutes, their phone number was unreachable. We smelled something suspicious and a team was constituted to probe the matter,” said Singh.
The CCTV footage also exposed their lies as police saw no incident of any loot as claimed by the victims.
“Pawan was in the car and Dilip was waiting outside the bank. Vipin, Durgesh and Pooja went in the bank and withdrew Rs 8 lakh cash. Pawan, then distributed Rs 2 lakh to the three people, and left with Rs 6 lakh. A robbery claim was then spread,” said Singh.
Police said that they unearthed the conspiracy when they raided the office premises of the call centre and found Dilip, Vipin, Durgesh, Sumit and Rahul with Rs 2 lakh cash. They also recovered six mobile phones and two computers.
“The trio had given Rs 2 lakh to Sumit and Rahul to keep it safe. On Wednesday, they were supposed to collect their money when we arrested them,” said Singh.
“We have booked five persons under Indian Penal code sections 420, 467 and 468 for fraud, forgery of documents and cheating. Soon, Pawan and Rupesh will be arrested,” said Singh.
