Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 24: Crime Branch has registered a criminal case against three persons for their involvement in the cheating, fraud and criminal conspiracy.
A spokesman of the Crime Branch said that one Chaman Lal, son of Sain Dass of Dharat, Nowshera lodged a written complaint alleging that he received a call on his mobile phone wherein the caller informed him that his mobile number had been nominated for the award of Rs 25 lakh and he will have to deposit Rs 19700 as security in an account in the State Bank of India.
The greedy complainant followed the directions and deposited the amount in the account number given by the caller. After some days, the caller again contacted complainant and asked him to deposit some more money as tax, document charges etc and in the process the complainant deposited a total sum of Rs 79,700 in installments in the given account numbers. However, later he came to know that he had been duped.
Acting on the complaint, Crime Branch started investigation during which it came to fore that the account numbers given by the caller were in the name of Siba Prasad, son of Jugal Kishore Sahoo of Odisha, Sandeep Kumar, son of Vijay Kumar of Bihar and Arattuthodika of Kerala.
Now, a formal case has been registered for further investigation.
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