Crime branch returns over Rs 35 lakh to online fraud victim

The Crime Branch of Jammu and Kashmir police today handed over Rs 35.60 lakh to a man, who had lost the amount to online fraudsters.
"The Crime Branch of Jammu had unearthed the gang of interstate cyber criminals few days back. Today it handed over the recovered amount of Rs 35.60 lakh to the complainant Vijay Gupta", SSP Crime Branch Mubassir Latifi said.
He said that few days ago the Crime Branch Jammu had arrested seven accused who were involved in cheating of Vijay Gupta.
The accused were identified as Chander Shaker Kandpal, Shiv Kumar, Anil Kumar, Arun Dass, Rajeev Tanwar, Sachin Bhardwaj and Pushkar Chaudhary.

"After putting in hard efforts, the entire amount of Rs 35.60 lakh was recovered by the Crime Branch at the instance of these accused persons", Latifi said.
He said that the investigation of the case was still under progress as involvement of some of the nationalized as well as private banks; insurance companies have also surfaced as they had shared the data pertaining to their respective clients with these online fraudsters.
Latifi also appealed the public at large that "come what may" all such unsolicited calls be avoided and under no circumstances the personal details, account numbers, PIN codes, ATM card numbers, credit card numbers, CVV codes, Internet Banking passwords be shared with anybody including the so called bank, RBI, SBI or insurance company officials, who make calls.