New Delhi: A software engineer has been arrested for deceiving hundreds of people by making a fake website to facilitate ticket bookings for historic monuments, police said on Friday.
The defendant, Sandeep Chand, lost his job during the Covid-19 pandemic and used a fake website for easy money, they said.
According to the police, a complaint was received from the Director General, Indian Archaeological Survey, Ministry of Culture on People Cheated when booking tickets for online historical monuments.
In one incident, tickets to visit Taj Mahal booked through the website www.agramonuments.in.
The victim made a booking, but the ticket could not be produced and the cost was deducted from their bank account, police said.
The case is registered in this matter and the investigation taken.
“During the Investigation Details, the technical details of registrants and alleged users of the IE website www.agramonumnts.in were collected, based on which technical supervision was installed on the alleged.
The defendant often changed its location.
But on perseverance, Sandeep Chand was arrested from Champawat, Uttrakhand,” Special CP , crime, Devesh Chandra Srivastava, said in a statement.
“He studied the basics of the ASI website before creating a fake website.”