Five persons, including a woman from Delhi, were today booked by Jammu and Kashmir police's crime branch for duping innocent people of their hard-earned money.
A crime branch spokesman said that a case has been registered against Reena, Mehmood Mustafa, Karan Singh Bisht, Vishal Sharma and Kulbir Negi of Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on the basis of a complaint by one Babu Ram, a Jammu resident.
No arrests, however, have been made in the case yet, police said.
Ram has alleged in his complaint that he had responded to an advertisement in a daily regarding installation of Aircell 3G towers but ended up being cheated of a total Rs 54,200 by the accused.
According to Ram, upon calling the phone number provided in the ad, he was given a Punjab National Bank account number and asked to deposit Rs 4,200 as security money into the same.
Thereafter, he received an agreement letter from the said firm containing a phone number. Calling this second number, he was asked for a payment of a further Rs 20,000 towards government tax.
After a few days, he received another call directing him to pay Rs 15,000 as road tax and another Rs 15,000 towards licence fee. All the above monies were deposited in the same PNB account.
However, the complainant later discovered that he had been duped of his hard-earned money.
During their inquiry into the matter, it was found that the accused were part of a well-planned criminal conspiracy to cheat unsuspecting people, the crime branch spokesman added.
