Fake call centre busted in Gurugram, six arrested
Gurugram (PTI): Police have busted a fake call centre allegedly involved in credit card frauds and arrested six persons, including a woman, officials said on Friday.
The raid was conducted late Thursday night in the Sector 30 area following a complaint filed on August 9 by a man who was duped by a caller posing as a bank employee, they said.
According to police, the accused used to impersonate bank officials and lure victims under the pretext of redeeming credit card points. They would send a link to a fake application, obtain the victim's credit card details and OTP, and transfer money fraudulently.
The arrested individuals have been identified as Ansar Khan (31) and Ahzaz (27), residents of Jurhera village in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district; Nisar Khan (20) and Suraj Kumar (26) of Rampura village in Alwar district; Yogendra (29) of Karampura in Delhi; and Sarita (25) from Almora district in Uttarakhand, police said.
All accused are school dropouts, having studied between Class V and Class XII, they added.
Police recovered 11 mobile phones from their possession. During questioning, the accused told police that the call centre had been operated for the last three months by Anuj, who remains at large.
"As per Anuj's instructions, the accused used to make calls and defraud people. After transferring money from credit cards, they purchased Petro cards, which were sold to taxi drivers to convert the amount into cash. The accused received a 10 per cent commission on the amount siphoned off," said ACP Cyber Crime, Priyanshu Dewan.
Further investigation is underway, and raids are being conducted to nab the mastermind, he added.
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Mumbai (PTI): A court in Sindhudurg on Monday convicted Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane in a 2019 case of pouring mud on an NHAI engineer when he was in opposition, and sentenced him to one-month imprisonment, noting that lawmakers are not supposed to take the law into their hands.
Later, the court suspended Rane's sentence, allowing him time to appeal before a higher court, while acquitting 29 other accused in the case.
"Even though Rane's intention was to raise a voice against the poor quality of work and inconvenience faced by the people, he was not supposed to humiliate or insult a public servant in public," additional sessions court judge V S Deshmukh stated.
"If such incidents continue to occur, public servants would not be able to discharge their duties with dignity," the judge noted.
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Calling the act "abuse of power", the court held that "it is the demand of time to curb such tendency".
Rane, a son of former Union minister Narayan Rane, was among 30 people charged under various offences, including rioting, assault to deter a public servant, and criminal conspiracy. He was in Congress when the incident occurred.
All the accused, including Nitesh Rane, were acquitted of these offences, as the court found insufficient evidence to support most of these claims.
However, the court found Nitesh Rane guilty of an offence under section 504 (intentional insult meant to provoke a breach of public peace) and sentenced him to one month's jail.
Rane, then a Congress MLA, had called the Sub-Divisional Engineer of the National Highway Authority, Prakash Shedekar, to a bridge over the Gad river in Kankavli on July 4, 2019, for inspecting the work to widen the Mumbai-Goa Highway.
According to the prosecution, Nitesh Rane and his followers, frustrated by the poor quality of the roadwork and waterlogging, confronted the engineer. They poured muddy water on Shedekar and forced him to walk through slush in public.
The court, after perusing the evidence on record, noted that the informant (victim) was holding a high post in the National Highway Authority.
"Despite that, he was made to walk through the muddy water in public. It would have certainly humiliated and insulted him," the court remarked.
The judge held that Rane compelling Shedekar to walk through the muddy water "was nothing but an intentional insult to the informant," and provocation which will cause him to break the public peace.
