Delhi doctor cheated of ₹22.7 lakh in fake stock trading app scam; two arrested
New Delhi: Delhi Police have busted a cyber fraud racket involving a fake stock trading application and arrested two men from Haryana for allegedly cheating a Delhi-based Doctor of ₹22.7 lakh, The Times of India reported.
The case came to light after the Doctor filed an online complaint on November 13, stating that she was duped through a fraudulent stock market investment scheme. According to police, she was added to a messaging group where several members posed as experienced stock market experts and discussed investment opportunities related to demat shares.
One of the group administrators, identifying herself as Yalini Guna, convinced the complainant to invest through a trading application shared via a link. Believing it to be genuine, the victim initially invested ₹2.7 lakh in multiple transactions. When she later attempted to withdraw the money, she was pressured to invest additional amounts under various excuses.
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Over time, the total amount invested rose to ₹22.7 lakh. Soon after, the victim was blocked from the application and removed from the group, following which she realised she had been cheated. A case was then registered and a special team was formed to investigate the matter.
During the investigation, police tracked the money trail and identified that part of the defrauded amount had been transferred to a bank account belonging to Sameer (22), a resident of Hisar in Haryana. Analysis of call detail records further revealed the involvement of another accused, Dev Singh (22).
Based on the findings, police conducted raids in Hisar on November 10 and arrested both accused. “During interrogation, Sameer disclosed that he opened 5 to 6 bank accounts in different banks and handed them over to Dev Singh in exchange for Rs 4,000 per account, which were then used for routing the fraud money,” DCP Gautam said.
Police seized 2 mobile phones and 3 SIM cards from the accused. Both were sent to judicial custody.
Police said the accused targeted victims through social media platforms by posing as financial experts and luring them with promises of guaranteed high returns. Victims were initially shown small profits to gain trust and were later coaxed into investing larger sums. Once the money was transferred, the fraudsters cut off all communication.
Further investigation is underway, 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.
