Three of inter-state gang held with Rs 14 lakh, 5 ATM cards

Mohali, June 6

A cyber team of the Mohali police has arrested three suspects allegedly involved in duping persons on the pretext of providing them remdesivir and amphonex injections and has seized Rs14 lakh and five ATM cards from them.

The suspects have been identified as Kurukshetra residents Mandeep Singh and Kulwinder Kumar, and Zirakpur resident Amit Kumar. A case under Sections 419, 420 and 120-B of the IPC and 51-A and 53 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, was registered at the Zirakpur police station on June 1. The suspects were produced in a court and remanded in four-day police custody.

The police said the inter-state gang used to contact persons in need of remdesivir and amphonex through social media groups and convinced them that they would arrange the injections. Once the money was transferred to their accounts, they stopped taking their calls.

The cyber team of the Mohali police was led by SP Gurjot Singh Kaler and Zirakpur SHO Onkar Singh Brar. Kaler said, ‘’The inter-state gang was running a fake operation in Punjab, Haryana, UP, Jharkhand and other states. They had no means to provide the injections and medicines. The suspects, led by Kulwinder Kumar, used to target poor people in far-off places and withdraw money through different bank accounts. The money has been recovered and will be given back to the victims after the legal process soon.’’

The suspects were taxi drivers and running the operation for three months. — TNS