Summary:
GHAZIABAD: Two persons were arrested on Saturday for allegedly cheating friends and relatives of Covid patients on the pretext of getting oxygen beds for them in prominent hospitals across Delhi-NCR.
The kingpin, Mayank Khanna (24), a BCom graduate from a Greater Noida college, and his accomplice, Pradeep Gaur (28), a property dealer in Ghaziabad, were picked up from Kotwali area.
Police said they have recovered Rs 1.95 lakhs from the duo and three others, Yash Mehta, Gautam Vashney and Satish, are on the run.
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GHAZIABAD: Two persons were arrested on Saturday for allegedly cheating friends and relatives of Covid patients on the pretext of getting oxygen beds for them in prominent hospitals across Delhi-NCR.
The kingpin, Mayank Khanna (24), a BCom graduate from a Greater Noida college, and his accomplice, Pradeep Gaur (28), a property dealer in Ghaziabad, were picked up from Kotwali area.
Police said they have recovered Rs 1.95 lakhs from the duo and three others, Yash Mehta, Gautam Vashney and Satish, are on the run.
“The youths have duped more than 25 people in Delhi-NCR and they have fraudulently taken over Rs 7 lakhs from 12 Ghaziabad residents in just three days,” said Nipun Aggarwal, SP city-1.
He said for the past few days, they were getting complaints from attendants of Covid patients who said they had been duped after being promised oxygen beds.
“We then decided to deploy policemen in plain clothes outside some private and government Covid hospitals.
One officer came across the suspects and we arrested them,” Aggarwal said.
According to him, the gang members had created fake websites of prominent private hospitals.