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JAIPUR: A 25-year-old mechanical engineer was arrested for running an online scam in which he tricked several people into paying large amounts of money to redeem lotteries.
DCP (north) Paris Deshmukh said a special team was constituted in Amber police station to zero in on an accused who offered lottery deals online and cheated people.
Police arrested the accused identified as Kamal Ashraf, a native of Bihar. According to the ASI Rajendra Kumar Bagda, the accused was mechanical engineer from a city-based college in Kukas. He graduated in 2019.
Officials in city police said the accused had come into contact with some other online scammers who had reaped a windfall by cheating people online. “The lure of easy money and minimum risk led him to venture into the world of cybercrime. He offered people dubious lottery deals of several lakhs, and subsequently demanded a commission of Rs 10,000 to 20,000,” an official said, adding he duped many people between 2018 and 2019.
Sources said many people who were cheated by the accused did not come forward to file a complaint. Also, Ashraf kept moving from one city to another. Recently, he had cheated an Odisha-based woman of nearly Rs 4 lakh. Local police discovered that the accused had studied in Kukas and lived as a tenant in Amber area.
Jaipur police also contacted their counterparts in Bihar police and kept close surveillance on Ashraf’s movements. Bagda cops received information that the accused was scheduled to visit Amber and arrested him on Saturday.
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