NEW DELHI: In five separate operations, Delhi Police has arrested 42 people on charges of duping people in different ways.
Thirty-six of them were running fake call centres, police said.
In the first operation, outer-north Delhi Police arrested 30 people running two fake international call centres.
According to DCP Rajiv Ranjan Singh, 101 laptops, 46 handsets and a Mercedes were seized apart from cash of around Rs 17.5 lakh.
“The accused were impersonating as justice department officials of the United Kingdom,” he added.
Raids were conducted on premises located at sectors 9 and 11 in Rohini.
The suspects revealed that they had purchased prospective customers’ data from darknet after paying around Rs 5 lakh.
The owners provided a script to the callers who used to make random calls using VoIP to the residents of the UK.
They used to tell them that a criminal case had been filed against them for tax dues and extorted money in lieu of settling the case.
In the second operation, the northwest district police arrested six people who were running a fake call centre and duping people on the pretext of getting them jobs in e-commerce and telecom firms, DCP Usha Rangnani said.
The accused have been identified as Satish, Naveen, Abhishek, Ravi, Sudhir and Ajeet.
Satish was earlier working as an engineer after completing his BTech from a Hyderabad-based university.
In another operation, Vasant Kunj police arrested a man named Sahil Arora for duping women and their families on pretext of marriage after befriending them on social media and matrimony sites, DCP Ingit Pratap Singh said.
The team also arrested a woman named Anita for duping elderly people at bus stands and railway stations while pretending to help them.
Meanwhile, two conmen who cheated people by impersonating undercover CBI officials have been arrested, DCP Ingit Pratap Singh further said.
The accused have been identified as Sanjiv Gill (58) and Ritesh Kumar (36).
Both are involved in ten other cases of similar nature.
In the fifth operation, two suspects who cheated people by offering them fake currency notes have been arrested in Civil Lines area, DCP Anto Alphonse said.
The accused have been identified as Mohammed Suhag and Mukhtar.
They had cheated a shooting champion and taken away his air pistol as well.