MNC exec,accomplice held for cheating

On August 2,Jugran,an employee with a private company,received a phone call from Kumar,who introduced himself as a sales manager from ICICI Bank and offered him a credit card against his insurance policy. Kumar,the police said,further told Jugran that he could avail loan facilities against the credit card. “I was in dire need of funds due to a persistent medical problem in our family and so I immediately agreed to it,” Jugran told the police.

“Kumar then instructed Jugran to submit a signed crossed-cheque for account verification,salary slips,bank statements,two photographs and a photocopy of his insurance policy and told him that an executive from the company would visit him,” the police said.

According to Jugran’s complaint the next day,Yousuf,posing as a sales executive of ICICI Bank,came to his residence to collect the documents and identified himself as Durgesh Kumar. Jugran had already kept a cross-signed cheque ready but Durgesh insisted that he would have to do it again.

Durgesh then left with the documents and told Jugran that he would receive the credit card in three days. 

However,when Jugran visited Standard Chartered Bank,where he had the account,on August 7,he found that more than Rs 95,000 had been transferred to Durgesh Kumar’s account through the cheque issued by him for the credit card.

“He immediately reported the matter to us and we registered an FIR,” the police said.

Police tracked the mobile phone numbers used to call Jugran and arrested Navin Kumar on August 3 from Ghaziabad.    

“Due to high ambitions and a lavish lifestyle that he (Kumar) ran into debt and started duping people,” the police said.

According to the police,Kumar has cheated more than 60 people. The police recovered 23 SIM cards,six mobile handsets,10 debit cards,four credit cards,a CPU with stolen data of insurance customers,fake IDs consisting of election I-card,and driving license from their possession.

The duo had also opened six bank accounts on fictitious identities.