Two held for duping Delhi trader of over Rs 57L through fake promotional scheme

Two men have been arrested for allegedly duping a trader of Rs 5750 lakhs after luring him to buy large quantities of cement through a fake promotional scheme police said on TuesdayTwo accused Chandan Kumar Bhuiyan 25 and Gopal 25 have been nabbed from their native place in Bihars Nalanda police said adding that one of their associate is abscondingThe police also claimed to have recovered Rs 101 crore in cash along with mobile phones SIM cards ATM cards and several documentsAlso reaad Delhi assembly BJP alleges scams in Delhi govt demands Kejriwals resignationOn September 22 last year a cement trader of south Delhi received a promotional message on his mobile which stated that on purchase of 2000 or more bags of UltraTech cement he would get a preferential rate of Rs 300 per bag police saidThe trader called the number twothree days later and call was received by a man who introduced himself as Shankar Purohit senior sales manager of UltraTech Cement Limited they saidFollowing their conversation that day Purohit made various Whatsapp calls to the trader later and induced him to purchase large quantities of the cement under the promotional scheme police saidDuring the calls the accused shared his bank account details with the trader But when the trader informed that he did not have a GST number Purohit told him that the cement will only be delivered once he gets the number officials saidThe trader then applied for a GST number In the meantime the accused kept asking the trader to make some advance payment to avail the offer police saidSpecial Commissioner of Police Crime Ravindra Singh Yadav said thecomplainant found the offer irresistible and paid Rs 12 lakhs Sometime around Diwali last year Purohit again offered a price of Rs 270 on purchase of 10000 cement bags and asked the complainant to deposit Rs 27 lakhsThe accused kept making such offers and in total extracted Rs 5750 lakhs from the the trader he saidOn November 22 when the complainant received a GST number and contacted Purohit the accused informed him that he was down with Covid and later switched off his phoneSensing something fishy the complainant contacted the head office of UltraTech Cement Ltd and learnt that no person with the name of Purohit worked in their company the senior police officer saidBased on technical inputs and local enquiries raids were conducted in Bihars Nawada and Nalanda following which two of his helpers were arrested he saidBhuiyan is the main conspirator and used to collect data from Google select the targets sent them messages and made the calls to lure them to deposit the money into their hired bank accounts by offering them irresistible offers police saidGopal arranged SIM cards bank accounts etc and withdrew money after Bhuiyan induced the target and convince him to deposit amount into his account they saidEfforts are on to nab Purohit who is absconding police addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever