3 held for cheating people on pretext of collecting funds for cancer patients
PTI Dec 04, 2017
Three men have been arrested for cheating people on the pretext of gathering donations for cancer patients, by running a trust and a call-centre, the police informed.The accused used to collect money for treatment of cancer patients. The patients would be given a small part of the collected amount. The rest would go to the accused, they said.
Scrutiny of the trust's bank accounts revealed a fraud of Rs 5 crore, a police official said.The accused have been arrested and Rs 2.69 lakh cash, phones, a laptop, a computer and several documents were seized from them, the police said. Earlier, the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force had busted a fake insurance racket and arrested four persons. Fake policy papers, seals of banks and insurance firms, a huge database of customers, cash and other items were seized from the arrested accused, ASP of UPSTF Triveni Singh said.
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