Gang dupes woman doctor of Rs 13.59 lakh, 3 Nigerians among 5 held

The deputy commissioner of police Rashmi Karandikar told the daily, "Under the pretext of paying custom duty fees, custom penalty, insurance fee and conversion procedure fee, the frauds made her pay Rs 13.59 lakh."

Following the incident, the doctor filed a complaint with the police station. A case was registered against the accused under relevant sections of cheating and cheating by impersonation.

The deputy commissioner added, "With the help of technical evidence, they managed to trace one of the culprits, identified as Pankaj Singh (24)."

And the names of the other accused were revealed eventually during the interrogation and all of them were arrested from Delhi. The four accused have been identified as Chijjioke Desmond Iheka (38), Kelechi Jonathan Dike (44) Chidozie Morris (35) and Sarfaraz Ansari (35).

The police also seized 25 mobile phones, four laptops, one tablet and 10 debit cards.

An officer further stated, "We have learnt that they had similarly created several profiles on Facebook while they have duped several persons using similar modus operandi. We are trying to identify the victims and subsequently we will check whether the complaint is made at the concerned police station as it will help us in detecting more cases."

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