Delhi: Two men arrested in fake interstate dollar exchange racket

DCP (Crime Branch) Vikram Singh said Sunday, “The pack members would archetypal sojourn shops and acquisition items utilizing genuine US dollars, past make a ruse by asking shopkeepers if they knew anyone who could speech dollars for Indian rupees.”

The DCP said the pack utilized fake SIM cards to pass with imaginable victims. During the exchange, the accused would amusement existent dollars arsenic bait but secretly manus implicit bags filled with bundles of paper. “After each palmy scam, the accused would destruct their phones and SIM cards, and permission the country for a fewer days to debar detection,” the serviceman said.

On receiving accusation astir the gang’s activities, a Crime Branch team, led by Inspector Gurmeet Singh and supervised by ACP Rohitash Singh, launched an investigation.

On November 16, constabulary said the squad received quality regarding 2 cardinal suspects, Neeraj alias Raju, and Karan alias Rahul. “In August, Neeraj and Karan duped a young antheral of Rs 2 lakh successful Sonia Vihar and executed a akin scam successful September successful the aforesaid area, cheating an aged antheral of Rs 1 lakh,” the DCP said.

The duo was arrested from Anjali Vihar successful Ghaziabad’s Loni district. During questioning, they admitted to their involvement, said police.

DCP Singh said the duo has a past of transgression activities, including cause offenses and robbery.

“Karan has been antecedently progressive successful 4 cases nether the NDPS Act, burglary, Arms Act, portion his subordinate Neeraj has been antecedently progressive successful six cases of the NDPS Act, robbery, Goonda Act, burglary, Arms Act. They some served clip successful jail,” the serviceman said.