3A man wanted in connection with a cheating case, registered at Bara Hindu Rao police station, was traced to Gaya district jail in Bihar, police said on Tuesday.
The complainant, a businessman had put up his SUV for sale online through an e-commerce portal. He was contacted by a youth from Bihar, who offered to pay him ₹3 lakh for the car. He transferred ₹2 lakh through NEFT and promised to pay the rest in cash.
The accused, Saurabh Mitra, took the victim’s account number and after sometime the man received an SMS confirming the transfer. After this, he allowed the youth to take the car. However, when he reached the bank to withdraw the money, the bank officials informed him that no such transaction had taken place.
The businessman tried to contact Saurabh but the phone was switched off.
It was also revealed that the transaction message was generated through an app and was fake. DCP (north) Nupur Prasad said the incident happened in 2018 and the accused had been on the run since.
He was finally traced to Bihar where he had been arrested for being involved in similar crimes.
The accused had chosen a Saturday for the transaction since the banks remain closed on Sundays. The following Monday, the businessman again approached the bank with the confirmation message. It was found that the message was generated through an app and was fake.
A case was registered with the Bara Hindu Rao police station after this.
DCP (north) Nupur Prasad said that that the incident happened in 2018, a team was formed to track down the man, but he kept evading the cops. The man kept changing his number and locations.
Finally, he was traced down to the Gaya central jail. He had been arrested by the Bihar Police in four cases similar to the one in Delhi. He was taken into custody and interogated during which he claimed to have disposed of the car in Meerut.
Police said that Saurabh is a college dropout and is tech savvy. He had procured an app that could send messages of accounts being credited without any actual transactions.