Jharkhand: Chatra man nabbed for duping 24 Delhiites with oxygen promise

CHATRA: A team of crime branch officials from Delhi Police arrested one Vikas Kumar from Unta Mor area under Sadar police station area in Chatra for allegedly cheating 24 persons in the national on the pretext of providing oxygen cylinders during the second wave of the pandemic.
The Delhi cops were helped by the district police, who provided them with specific inputs about Vikas based on which the latter conducted raids and arrested the accused.
Sadar police station officer in-charge Luv Kumar said, “He was hiding in his aunt’s house in Unta Mor from where he was arrested based on specific inputs. He was taken to New Delhi after the team secured a transit remand for him.”
Vikas’s arrest comes months after his accomplice Anil Ganjhu’s arrest on May 10. The duo used to run an online racket which duped scores of people in Delhi after making false promises of providing oxygen cylinders. They would ask the kin of Covid-19 patients to transfer money into their accounts for home-delivery of oxygen cylinders. Each of those 24 victims were duped anywhere between Rs 8,000 and Rs 20,000 for a cylinder.
The victims lodged separate FIRs with the Hazrat Nizamuddin police and Kalkaji Police stations in the national capital. The crime branch, which began investigating the case following a Supreme Court directive, nabbed Ganjhu from Bhuiyandih village in Chatra.
In subsequent interrogations, Ganjhu revealed that it was Kumar made Ganjhu open several bank accounts. “He took my ATM cards and passbook from me and promised me Rs 10,000. He paid me Rs 15,000 for my ATM and passbook,” Ganjhu told the police.
Vikas had been evading arrest for almost a month before the cops could nab him.