Two held on charges of duping people

Two men from Kolkata were arrested for allegedly duping several persons here to the tune of around Rs 15 lakh by claiming that they had won separate lotteries.
"In the first case, Bodda Venkata Shiva Santhosh Kumar, working as Navik (QA) in Coast Guard ship 'Priyadarshini' here got a call from an anonymous person on January 23 saying he had won an international lottery worth Rs 40 lakh. The caller asked him to deposit Rs 12 lakh in various bank accounts to claim the money, which Kumar did," said DCP (Crime) T Ravi Murthy today.
He said the case was handed over to Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (CCIC) which arrested Uday Kumar Gupta, 34, a salesman with Bengal Gift House, in Kolkata last night while a search is on to trace main accused Naushad Alam, a colleague of Gupta.

In another incident, one S Indraja, 23, received a similar call claiming that she had won Rs 25 lakh through a lucky draw scheme of television show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati', the DCP said.
The caller, who identified himself as a manager of 'Money Transfer Wing' of a nationlised bank in Mumbai, asked Indraja to deposit Rs 3 lakh in various bank accounts to claim the "prize money".
Indraja lodged the complaint after she failed to get money even after depositing Rs 3 lakh.

After investigation, police arrested Prabhir Kumar Chakravarthy, 29, also a native of Kolkata, last night.
The DCP said Chakravarthy had worked with another accused identified as Rajiv Gupta, a call centre employee, at Salt Lake area in Kolkata.

Rajiv is absconding, he added.