New Delhi: Rohini District Police have arrested 11 women and their male colleagues for allegedly running a fake call center and deceived people by offering low flowering loans with a fictitious scheme called ‘Pradhan Loan Loan YOJNA’.
According to DCP (Rohini) Pranav Tayal, the defendant had postponed people from several states, including Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand.
“Twenty-nine cellphone handsets, one tablet, customer details list, book order books, internet dongles, laptops and other burdensome documents have been confiscated from the defendant,” Tayal said.
The man who was arrested, Deepak Saini (24), owned by Nangloi and was one of the racket masterminds, police said.
The call center is running from the first floor of a building in Sector 6, Rohini.
“Acting on the instructions of senior officers, land staff are issued to develop information about the fake call center operating in the area.
The team warns informants and receives a tip-off of this call center after the initiated probe and supervision is installed,” DCP added.
A team consisting of ACP Brahamjeet Singh and Inspector Kuldeep Singh conducted a raid on the spot and found employees engaged in tele-calling.
When he saw the police party, they stopped their activities and tried to hide their cellphones.
While questioning that the defendant acknowledged that they were involved in deceiving people with the pretext of offering personal loans with very low interest rates under the ‘Mantri Pradhan loan’.
The accusation told the police that they used to make calls to people offering loans about favorable interest rates so they could start a business.
They claimed it was done by the government as part of the Covid Help package.
To make it look like an authentic deal, they are used to collect documents and customer ID evidence.
In a substitute for loan sanctions, gangs will ask them to pay a certain amount as a “processing fee”.
After submission of fees, they will continue to ask them to pay more money for one pretext or another.
Then, they will block the person and not affordable.
12 The accused of being sent to durable until September 10, 2021.
However, the owner of the call center has not been arrested.