A 28-year-old security guard was arrested in connection with a case in which an engineer was duped of approximately ₹28 lakh on the pretext of being given a job opportunity, the police said on Wednesday.
The accused, Pinkesh Kumar, worked as a guard at a housing project in Noida. Two years ago, he came in contact with a person who asked him to provide his bank account details on a commission basis, they said. Insisted by him, Kumar opened accounts in different banks and later withdrew the amount from ATMs. He got 10% of the total withdrawn amount as commission, the police said.
A probe was initiated after a resident of Malviya Nagar approached the police saying she was duped by a man on the pretext of a job offer. The woman is an engineer by profession and was working as a deputy manager with a firm but was looking for another job.
According to her police complaint, in the first week of July this year, she got a Voice-over Internet Protocol (VOIP) call from an online job portal. A man introduced himself as Rahul and told her that her CV was selected by DLF Ltd. After a few days, she got a VIOP call from a person who pretended to be the HR of DLF and told her that she was selected for a senior managerial post and offered a handsome package.
He told her to furnish a bond of ₹28 lakh and asked her to deposit ₹6.8 lakh at first. This way, the man managed to get ₹28 lakh deposited into different bank accounts.
Based on her complaint, a case was registered and during the course of investigation, bank account details of beneficiary accounts and the alleged calling numbers were traced, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Atul Kumar Thakur said.
With the help of technical analysis of call detail records and local sources, Kumar was apprehended from Parthala Khanjarpur village in Noida Sector 122, he said.
The police said that the main accused is yet to be arrested.