Ambikapur. Surguja Police has once again taken major action against ‘Mule Account’ holders who indulge in online fraud and illegal betting. Gandhinagar Police has arrested an active member of a gang who fraudulently opened bank accounts in the name of his own acquaintances and sold them on.
Suspicious transactions worth Rs 1 crore 80 lakh have been found in the accounts recovered from the arrested accused. Surguja Police has made it clear that this campaign against those involved in illegal buying and selling of bank accounts will continue.
According to the information received from the police, applicant Vaibhav Suryavanshi had lodged a report in Gandhinagar police station that Sumit Singh and Anuj Singh, residents of Navapara, had made the excuse of exchanging money for the construction of a house.
In the name of helping Vaibhav, both of them opened two bank accounts in his name in IDBI Bank. A few days after the account was opened, the accused fraudulently asked for the ATM card, check book and passbook of Vaibhav’s account and took it with them.
After some time, when the bank management informed Vaibhav that a big transaction of Rs 80 lakh had taken place from one of his accounts and about Rs 1 crore from the other account, he was shocked. The applicant immediately applied to the bank and got the accounts closed and lodged a complaint at the Gandhinagar police station.
On the report of Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Gandhinagar Police registered the case under section 318(4), 319, 317(4) and 3(5) of the Indian Justice Code (BNS) under crime number 314/2026 and started investigation.
During investigation, police detained suspect Anuj Singh (30 years), resident of Opposite Church, Navapara and interrogated him strictly. The accused confessed that he used to deceive innocent people and obtain bank accounts in their names and then sell those accounts at high prices to settle and withdraw the money for online fraud and betting.
After the crime was proved, the police arrested the accused Anuj Singh and sent him to jail on judicial remand. The police have already arrested Sumit Singh, another co-accused in this case, and sent him to jail, while the investigation is going on in search of other suspects associated with the gang.
Surguja Police is continuously adopting a strict stance against the buying and selling of Mule accounts and illegal SIM cards. Within the last 10 days, the police took major action in 4 different cases related to Mule account and sent a total of 20 accused, including account holders and kingpins, behind bars.
Following strict instructions from the Inspector General of Police and Superintendent of Police, a special appeal has been made to the youth not to sell their bank accounts or SIM cards to strangers out of greed for a few rupees, nor to indulge in any such immoral and criminal activities. Gandhinagar police station in-charge Inspector Praveen Dwivedi, constables Arvind Upadhyay and Rishabh Singh played the main role in this entire action.
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