Ambala, November 7 (R. Singh):- The team of Ambala Cyber Crime Police Station has arrested four more accused in a Rs. 16 lakh fraud case involving a fake trading scheme. Three accused had already been arrested and sent to jail in September 2026. With these latest arrests, the total number of accused arrested in the case has risen to seven.
Sub-Inspector Sushil Kumar, the investigating officer in the case, stated that Vijay Kumar, a resident of Ambala Cantonment, had lodged a complaint at the Cyber Crime Police Station on December 7, 2024. He alleged that between October 10, 2024, and November 19, 2024, unidentified cyber fraudsters lured him with promises of high returns through online investments and trapped him in a fake trading scheme, defrauding him of a total of Rs. 16 lakh.
After registering a case on the basis of the complaint, the Cyber Crime Police initiated an investigation. On the basis of technical inputs and available evidence, four more accused were identified and arrested. The arrested accused are linked to Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. They have been identified as Surjeet Kumar alias Maanas, originally from Ganesh Colony, Jaipur (Rajasthan), and currently residing at Shri Shyam Vatika, Bindayaka, Jaipur (Rajasthan); Suraj Saroj, resident of village Gomadih, Lalganj (Uttar Pradesh); Tej Pratap Singh, resident of Vijaypur Nanosar, Bindayaka, Jaipur (Rajasthan); and Prashant, resident of Hanuman Enclave, Ganga Vihar, near Maharishi Arvind College, Sirsi, Jaipur (Rajasthan). All four accused have been sent to judicial custody.
