Delhi Police arrests 2 for hacking into delivery app, making purchases worth 1 lakh
New Delhi, Feb 19: Two men were arrested for allegedly making grocery purchases almost worth a lakh by hacking into a south Delhi woman's online delivery app account, police said on Monday.
The accused were identified as 25-year-old Aniket Kalra and 23-year-old Himanshu Kumar, both residents of Gurugram, police said. An associate of theirs is still at large.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (south) Ankit Chauhan said the victim late on February 14 night got an Interactive Voice Response, or IVR, call with an automatic recording warning her of a potential hacking attempt into her account and asked her to click certain numbers in her phone.
As soon as she clicked the numbers, she received a message that online orders of Rs 97,197 were made from her bank account linked with the delivery firm app, Chauhan said.
When police analysed the call data record of the caller, they found that the call was made from an app-based system, connected with an IVR System.
Simultaneously, other details from the delivery partner were obtained and the location of the caller was found in to be in Gurugram, the officer said.
Police raided the place in Gurugram's Sector 7 on Sunday and arrested Aniket and Himanshu, he said.
Two mobile phones (including the one used in offence), three SIM cards (including the one used in offence), nine credit and debit cards, and one fake Aadhaar card were recovered from their possession, police said.
During the course of interrogation, it was revealed that Aniket, a class 12 drop out, used to work as a delivery executive with the same online delivery partner, said another officer.
He was in touch with one Anshu yet to be arrested who taught him how to hack into people's delivery firm app account through pre-recorded voice messages and access their confidential data, the officer said.
Once the gang would have the required information, Aniket would place online orders for grocery for as much money as there would be in the victim's account, he added.
The gang gave random addresses in Gurugram for delivery of items to cover their tracks, the officer said.
Aniket and Himanshu would sell the grocery items in the local market at discounted prices and would send 50 per cent cut to Ansh via cash depositing machines or various UPI Ids, he said.
Himanshu owns a medical shop in Gurugram and used the shop to facilitate transfer of the defrauded money to various UPI IDs and accounts, police said.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
