Jaipur News Desk: Eight people have been arrested after exposing a gang involved in fraud in the name of providing fake agency for making Aadhar card and PAN card and agency for e-Mitra in the capital. The gang has defrauded 400 people of around Rs 1 crore in September. One to three lakh rupees were charged to some customers in the name of providing agency for making Aadhaar and PAN cards and to others in the name of providing all the facilities (e-Mitra agency). People would come to the agencies to get their Aadhaar and PAN cards made. Applications could be made in the software, but due to lack of contract with the government, people’s Aadhaar and PAN cards would not be generated and the applications would be shown as pending. The kingpin had got this software made for fraud from a company based in Mansarovar.
DCP Tejaswani Gautam said that OTS resident gangster Pramod Kumar Meena, Muhana resident Amritam Kumar Singh, Yogesh Jangid, originally resident of Jhunjhunu Hall, Shanti Nagar Colony, Durgapura, Shubham Samaria, originally resident of Rajput Colony, Jhunjhunu Hall, Malviya Nagar, Mahavir, originally resident of Bharatpur Hall, Mahesh Nagar. City resident Rahul Singh, originally Saurabh Sharma, resident of Rampura Road, Sanganer, Gangapur City Hall, Sitaram Jat, originally resident of Bharatpur Hall, Rampura Road, and Rohit Muradiya, originally resident of Dayanand Nagar, Ramgarh Pachwara Hall, Jhalana Dungri, Dausa have been arrested. Malviya Nagar ACP Aditya Poonia received information regarding the gang. After this the team gathered information about the gang and took action. The father of accused kingpin Pramod is an employee in OTS and he is living with his father in OTS.
Customers found out about fraud
ACP Aditya Poonia told that accused kingpin Pramod had opened a call center named Smart Digital Seva Kendra on the third floor of a building located in Malviya Nagar. He told that on October 1, on behalf of the accused Pramod and his other associates, they were soliciting people from the people in the name of opening a public service center (agency) for all services (including Aadhaar card, PAN card, electricity, water, mobile bill payment etc.) Information about fraud was received. It was raided and a list of 400 customers who had taken agency from them was found in the computers found at the call centre. When the customers were contacted, they came to know that they had been cheated.
Opening call centers by changing location in a month or two
Aditya Poonia told that accused Pramod had opened a call center here only one and a half month ago. Earlier he had opened a call center at Apex Circle. The accused would open a call center at one place only for one to two months and then change the place after cheating people. The accused has committed fraud by opening call centers at many places in the city. The accused is being interrogated in this regard. The criminal records of all the arrested accused are being investigated.
Cheating by advertising on social media
Police Station Officer Vinod Sankhla said that the accused used to advertise themselves on social media and then get people to deposit money online. Seven mobiles, 16 computer monitors, one laptop and other items have been seized from the call centre.
