Email: / Economic Offences Wing
Crime Branch: Delhi Police
4th May, 2013
PRESS RELEASE
Ø On-line transaction fraud detected.
Ø Rs. 55 Lacs transferred from a Corporation Bank account in Delhi to various accounts in Vadodara.
Ø Transaction through RTGS affected by using deceptively similar email id.
Ø One Accused arrested from Vadodara
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The Economic Offences Wing Delhi Police has arrested one accused namely:-
Kapil Nagle (Age 25 Years) S/o Sh. Nathuji Nagle R/o H. No. 26, Omkar Bunglows, Opp. M.M Showroom, Soma Talav, Dabhoi-Waghodia Ring Road, Vadodara (Gujarat)-391110. Permanent Address:- New Govind Colony, Zakir Hussain ward, Ward no.-8, Amla, Distt. Betul, Madhya Pradesh,
in an online transaction fraud of about Rs 55 lacs.
A case FIR No. 96/13 dt. 23/04/2013 u/s 420/34/ 120B IPC PS- EOW was registered in EOW on the complaint of Sh. Sudhir Pradhan, AGM, Corporation Bank wherein it was alleged that one of their privileged customers, M/s S.S Brothers, a partnership firm have a current account no. 986 at their Vasundhara Enclave branch located at Vasundhara Enclave, New Delhi. The firm has two partners and one of the partners namely Mr. Saalim Qureshi is authorized to operate the said current account. On 15.04.2013, the Vasundhara Enclave, New Delhi branch of the complainant bank received an email from a deceptively similar email id in comparison to the victim firm’s registered email account with the bank requesting for four RTGS transfers for an amount totaling Rs. 70 Lakhs for credit to four different beneficiaries accounts maintained with Axis Bank and State Bank of India. The Vasundhara Enclave branch replied to the said mail on same date and asked for providing the Cheque No’s of the said firm and also asked to reply on the difference in amount in words and figures. The branch received reply to its email wherein particulars of the cheques were provided in the mail and amount was corrected. Thereafter the Bank effected four RTGS transfers on 15.04.2013 to the bank accounts mentioned in the request. One RTGS of Rs. 15 Lakhs sent to alleged beneficiary account returned back thereby making the total amount of fraudulent transfer through three RTGS at Rs. 55 Lakhs. The case was registered when the account holder informed the bank that no such email was sent from their end for affecting the RTGS transfers.
Modus Operandi:- Investigations conducted so far revealed that the accused person alongwith the other accomplices procured the bank account details of the victim and thereafter by using this information transferred the money from that account to beneficiary accounts opened on the basis of fake identities. In the instant case the accused persons had succeeded in getting a number of fake proprietorship firms registered with District Industries Center, Vadodara in different names using fake identities and then managed to open a number of current accounts in various banks using the said information. Thereafter using a similar looking email ID of the victim company they sent email requesting transfer of funds through RTGS to four beneficiary account maintained with Axis Bank and State Bank of India in Vadodara. They later on withdrew the money through ATM’s and self Cheques.
Role of Accused Person:- Timely and prompt investigation revealed that accused Kapil Nagle aged 25 years is a permanent resident of Baitul District, Madhya Pradesh, presently residing in Vadodara. He was arrested from Vadodara by a team of EOW, Delhi led by SI Arvind Sharma. Kapil Nagle committed the crime with the help of his associates Karan Pratap, Atul Singh Kushwah, Manish, Rajkumar and Lakhanpal. He holds a diploma in Mechanical engineering from the Govt. Polytechnic, Sagar, MP. After a brief stint of jobs in call centers in Bhopal, he moved to Surat in search of work. There he met Atul Singh, the kingpin in the racket, through a common friend. Thereafter, as part of the Atul Singh gang, he moved to Vadodara where he got a fake account opened in his own name. A lot of incrementing bank documents including cheque-books, ATM cards etc have been recovered from the house in which the accused person was residing. In addition one laptop, USB Internet hub and many SIM cards of different service providers have also been recovered from his possession.
Further investigation in the case is in progress and efforts are on to trace and apprehend the other accused persons.
(S.D.MISHRA)
ADDL. DY. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
ECONOMIC OFFENCES WING
NEW DELHI
Dated : 04.05.13
Ø DRIVER ESCAPED WITH CASH OF HIS EMPLOYER CAUGHT
Ø STOLEN CASH RS. 12.19 LACS RECOVERED
Special Staff, South District has arrested a driver namely Lala Ram (27 years) s/o Pyare Lal r/o Village Bhikampur, PS Chhattari District, Bulandsahar, UP who had escaped with the cash of his employer. With his arrest, stolen cash Rs. 12.19 lacs have been recovered from his possession.
BRIEF FACTS :
On 25-04-13 at about 6:10 PM, complainant Sh. Sunil Dahuja along with his family visited South Extension (Part-II) Market for shopping. His driver namely Lala Ram stayed along with car in the parking and they all left for shopping. When they came back after shopping, driver Lala Ram was not found in the car. On search, they found the keys were lying on the dashboard of the car and a briefcase containing cash Rs 14.26 Lacs, Cheque Books and other documents were missing. When the complainant Sh. Sunil Dahjuja tried to contact on the mobile phone of driver Lala Ram, it was found to be switched off. In this regard, a case vide FIR No. 155/13 u/s 381 IPC PS Hauz Khas, Delhi was registered and investigation was taken up.
INVESTIGATION :
The Special Staff, South District was also assigned the task to locate the driver and to recover the stolen cash. Accordingly, a team consisting of SI Gyanender, ASI Mahender, Phool Singh HCs Bhoop, Rajender, Manoj, Cts Yashvir, Naresh and Ct. Yogesh was formed under the supervision of Inspector Jasmohinder Chaudhari, I/C Special Staff and over all supervision of Sh. Kulwant Singh, ACP/Operations.
The team worked relentlessly and collected details of driver and deployed secret sources. During verification, it was found that driver Lala Ram had given fake address of a village in Bulandshehar, UP. Several raids at the possible hideouts of absconding Lala Ram were conducted in different Districts of western UP including Bulandshehar, Khurja, Noida and Aligarh. The hard work of team bore results and specific information was received that on 05/04/13, he will come to Dakshinpuri at his cousin’s residence in Delhi. Immediately, members of team swung into action and laid a trap at and around Khanpur ‘T’ Point and apprehended accused Lala Ram. On search, stolen cash Rs. 12.19 lacs were recovered from the possession. Accordingly, the accused was arrested vide DD No. 13A dated 05/05/13 PS Neb Sarai.
INTERROGATION :
During interrogation, accused confessed to have stolen the cash of his owner while they had visited South Extension Market. He disclosed that he had given some part of stolen money to his relatives and efforts are being made to recover the same. Accused further disclosed that he was not satisfied with his low salary and wanted to buy his own Innova Car to run in UP. On that day, he found that his owner left his bag full of cash in car. When his owner along with other family members left for shopping, he picked up the bag and escaped from there.
RECOVERIES :
1. Stolen cash Rs. 12.19 lacs.
(B.S. JAISWAL)
DCP/SOUTH DISTRICT
/ PRESS RELEASEDELHI POLICE
04.05.2013
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NORTH DISTRICT
· VERIFICATION OF ROBBERS/SNATCHERS YIELDED RESULT
· DREADED CRIMINAL WANTED IN ABDUCTION & BRUTAL MURDER CASE ARRESTED
· CRIMINAL, WHO FIRED AT AN IPS OFFICER OF GUJRAT CADRE, ONCE AGAIN BEHIND THE BARS
With the arrest of one Mehraj @ Guddu s/o Azam Ali r/o Mohalla Qazi, Kasba Sahwar, Tehsil Sawere, Distt. Kasganj, U.P, a sensational case of abduction and murder of a person namely Noorul has been worked out. Accused Mehraj is also an accused in firing at IPS Officer of Gujrat Police, Himanshu Shukla.
INCIDENT & TEAM
To curb the incidents of robbery and snatching in North District, a drive was initiated in every police station of North District to verify the movements of criminals, who were earlier involved in such cases. In this regard, a special team consisting of Surender Kumar, Inspr./ATO, ASI Dinesh, Ct. Ravinder, Ct. Deepak, Ct. Jai Prakash, was constituted at PS Subzi Mandi, under the supervision of Insp. Tanvir Ashraf, SHO/Subzi Mandi.
Few days back, an information was received that one Mehraj @ Guddu who is previously involved in many cases of murder, dacoity, robbery and snatching, is wanted in an abduction and brutal murder case registered at P.S. Sahawar, (U.P)vide FIR No. 126/13 u/s 364/302/201/34 IPC, is secretly residing in Delhi. Further, it came into notice that he was in contact with another desperate snatcher Aasif, B.C of police station Nand Nagri. All related information was collected regarding Mehra from the police officials of P.S. Sahawar, U.P. During verification, it also came to notice that Mehraj and Aasif are co-accused in case FIR No. 67/05 u/s 395/397 IPC, P.S. Maurice Nagar.
As per the secret information a trap was laid at Boulevard Road and Mehraj was apprehended by a special team. Detailed interrogation was carried out from Mehraj. Initially, he tried to mislead the police but later confessed his involvement in the abduction and murder case of P.S. Sahawar, U.P and he was arrested in P.S. Subzi Mandi. Later, police of P.S. Sahawar, U.P were formally informed. U.P. Police also reached Delhi and submitted an application before the Hon’ble court for getting the custody of the accused.
INTERROGATION
During interrogation, accused Mehraj @ Guddu stated that he is involved in many cases of murder, robbery, dacoity & snatching in Delhi, NCR and in Gujrat also. He also disclosed that he along with his associates abducted one person namely Nurul in his own car, who was resident of the same village on 25.03.2013 and later murdered Nurul. Dead body of Nurul was recovered near Firozabad, U.P in his own Tata Safari No. UP-82B-5500. In this regard case FIR No. 126/13, dated 28.03.2013 u/s 364 IPC was registered at P.S. Sahawar, U.P.
PROFILE
The accused is a desperate criminal who is involved in about dozen of cases in Delhi, NCR, UP and Gujrat. In the year 1999, he started committing crime like violent robbery and murder in the area of P.S. Seelam Pur. Later, in the year 2003 he was once again apprehended in a case of violent robbery in the area of P.S. Shahadra. But, even after his arrest, he did not stop committing crime and remained involved in many cases of robbery, dacoity and snatching. In fact, five cases were registered against him in various police stations of North, South and North-East Distt.
When Delhi & UP police mounted pressure on him, he left Delhi and went to his relatives place in Gujrat, where he was involved in a case of robbery. When his identity was disclosed, he came back to his native state. He was so desperate, that Gujrat police had to detail an IPS officer Sh. Himanshu Shukla, the then ASP Vadodra to lead the party, to arrest Mehraj.
Following a tip-off, a team of Gujarat Police, led by IPS officer, reached Agra and set up a trap in a village, where Mehraj was believed to be hiding. The IPS officer received injuries amid the cross firing between the criminal and the police. The IPS officer was shot at in an area under the Ganjdundwara Police Station of Etah district, near Agra, in Uttar Pradesh.The IPS officer belongs to the 2005 batch, The officer had visited Agra in search of a criminal, Mehraj alias Guddu, a native of Sahawar Village of Etah district, who was wanted by the Gujarat Police in connection with a robbery case.The officer had received bullet injuries in his stomach. A case was lodged against Mehraj under Section 307, 333 and 25 of the Arms Act with Ganjdundwara Police Station of the Etah district. Sh. Himanshu Shukla, IPS, was awarded Gallantry Medal for leading this operation. In this case, a cash reward of Rs. 50,000/- was announced on his arrest by U.P. Police.
In the year 2008, Special Cell of Delhi Police arrested accused Mehraj after an encounter. In this regard, a case vide FIR No. 05/08 u/s 186/353/307 IPC was registered at P.S. Special Cell. One English Pistol and cartridges were recovered from his possession.
He was previously involved in following cases:-
Sl.No. / FIR No. / u/s / Police Station1 / 496/99 / 302/34 IPC / Seelam Pur Delhi
2 / 362/99 / 394 IPC / Seelam Pur Delhi
3 / 68/03 / 394/397/34 / Shahdara
4 / 99/05 / 392/397/34 IPC / New UsmanPur
5 / 375/05 / 379/411 IPC / Sahibabad, UP
6 / 414/05 / 356/379/411 IPC / H.N.Din
7 / 67/05 / 392/34 IPC / Maurice Nagar
8 / 240/05 / 399/402 IPC / Sarai Rohilla
9 / 67/07 / 394/397/504/114/120-B IPC& 25 Arms Act / Pandu, Distt. Baroda , Gujarat.
10 / 571/07 / 307/333 IPC / Ganj Dund wara, Etah, UP
11 / 5/2008 / 307/186/353/506 IPC & 25/27 Arms Act, / Special Cell, Lodhi Colony,Delhi
Detail of the available incidents are as under:-