Mumbai: Cuffe Parade Police arrested a 25-year-old man from Noida for cheating a woman of Rs 1.21 lakh. The accused has been arrested for arranging dummy bank accounts and cheating victims by promising them jobs with lucrative salaries at nationalised banks through Monster.com.
The accused, Vikrant Giri, 25, a Noida resident, was arrested last Saturday. Giri had arranged for bank accounts where the cash would be transferred. He is the second accused to be arrested in the case. Police are searching for his accomplices operating the racket. On July 14, Cuffe Parade police arrested Devrushi Ashok Kumar Sharma, 24, a resident of UP. During probe, it was found Sharma was asked to open a bank account and the cash was transferred in his bank account. Sharma was getting a commission of 20 per cent.
Rashmi Jadhav, senior police inspector, Cuffe Parade said, “During probe, we found Giri had arranged for dummy bank accounts, into which the victims would transfer money. We are probing how many dummy accounts Giri used in the past. We are hunting for the mastermind of the scam and others, who called the victims.”
In June 2017, complainant Jyoti Singh Chaudhary, 24, filed an FIR with Cuffe Parade Police. She alleged she had uploaded her resume on Monster.com. Then, Chaudhary received calls, he pretended to be a Monster executive and falsely assured her of a being selected as an executive in Mumbai HDFC, and sought Rs 1.21 lakh, as ‘processing fees’.