Sriganganagar : 19-year-old Prashant Soni, a resident of Gurunagar, an accused wanted in the Sriganganagar cyber fraud case, has been arrested by the Purani Abadi police and taken on remand. Initially it has come to light that he has used more than 100 bank accounts of people for depositing and withdrawing money in cyber fraud. Detailed interrogation of the accused regarding the entire matter is going on. SHO Ajay Kumar said that accused Prashant Soni and his brother Manish Soni together do the business of cyber fraud. He has further formed a team which helps him in his work. During interrogation of Prashant Soni, he told that he had taken people’s bank accounts on rent. In this, money was transferred from one to 20 times to one account. If there was any aware victim, he would have registered a case and the police would have frozen the bank account into which the accused used to transfer money.
If the victim of fraud did not reach the police, money was transferred to the same bank account several times. In this regard, Head Constable Kamlesh Kumar of Purani Abadi police station arrested the accused Vinay Baghla son of Ashok Kumar resident of street number 7, Chak 3 E Chhoti and Hansraj son of Taranath Jat resident of Nainasar district Churu Hall tenant Setia Farm on the night of 3rd November. Five check books of different banks, three ATM cards and one bank passbook were seized from them. During interrogation, the accused told that they provide bank accounts to Prashant Soni and Manish Soni. The accused deposit the cyber fraud amount in these accounts. This amount is transferred to Prashant Soni and Manish Soni by withdrawing cash from ATM card or cheque.
