Police busts racket duping people on mobile towers

With the arrest of a 27-year-old man, Delhi Police today claimed to have busted an inter-state racket which allegedly used to dupe people on the pretext of installing mobile towers.
The police raided a call centre set up by the person at northwest Delhi's Netaji Subhash Place area on Monday and arrested the accused, identified as Sumit Mathuria, said DCP (Northwest) Vijay Singh.
However, a 33-year-old woman, who was Mathuria's main aide and managed the affairs of the call centre, dodged the police team and fled. The woman, whose name is yet to be verified, is still at large.
The police took up the investigation on the basis of a complaint filed by a resident of Sonia Vihar on east Delhi. The complainant provided the police with the phone numbers of the accused, which helped the police to track them.

During interrogation, Mathuria told the police that he and his aide used to get advertisements published in leading dailies at several states -- UP, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand and West Bengal -- and duped their targets on the pretext of installing mobile towers under a multinational company, police said.
The complainant in this case had come across one such advertisement at his native place in UP and approached them.

When the victims used to approach Mathuria he used to take money under expense heads like documentation fees and other charges. To continue cheating, they also used to send cheques to their targets, which bounced anyway and forged documents, said police.

The police are now looking into files to find out other targets of the alleged racket.
"We have found a few other victims here and have communicated the matter to police departments in the states where they had published advertisements. Investigation of the case is underway and more arrests are likely," said the DCP.
Police have identified five bank accounts opened by the duo on the basis of fake documents. The accused have been booked for cheating and other relevant sections of IPC, police added.