New Delhi: The Cyber Crime Police Station of Delhi Police’s Outer North District has arrested six accused in four cyber-fraud cases involving mule bank accounts, fraudulently issued SIM cards and an APK-based fraud module, according to a police note issued on Tuesday.
Highlights, as stated by police
- Six accused arrested in four cases; four account holders and a postman were bound down.
- Seventy bank accounts were allegedly arranged for a cybercrime network; co-accused Mohit has been identified and is lodged in Tihar.
- About 187 SIM cards were allegedly issued fraudulently in 2026 by a dealer and supplied for ₹1,500 each.
- Three bank accounts were allegedly sold for ₹20,000; two cyber-fraud cases were worked out.
- A total of 125 NCRP complaints (9, 114 and 2) are linked, with about ₹1.59 crore in fraud involved.
- Seven mobile phones, eight ATM cards, a POS set, ₹10,030 and a motorcycle were seized; Hyderabad-based handlers, Vicky Chauhan and other associates are under scrutiny.
APK-based fraud module
- Police said the key accused, Sourav, was arrested in Jalandhar and about ₹3.73 crore of fraud proceeds are under scrutiny.
- Entries for 124 bank accounts and cards (29 accounts, 85 cards and 10 masked cards) were found on his phone, and a 500-square-yard bakery factory is under scrutiny.
- He has eight previous involvements, and a multi-state syndicate across Jamtara, Gujarat and Punjab is being investigated.
- Police said ₹74.94 lakh was refunded to victims through the MRM portal, and ₹1.12 crore to complainants in these cases.
Case I: mule-account racket (FIR 39/2026)
The case was registered on October 21 at the Cyber Crime police station. An SBI account in another person’s name was found linked with four NCRP complaints; the account holder said Devendra alias Sachin and Mohit had induced him to open it. Other Shahbad Dairy residents told police they were induced to give documents and open accounts on promises of insurance benefits or money. One said he never received the ATM kit or passbook. The area postman told police the accused showed account holders’ Aadhaar cards and collected the account kits from him.
Devendra alias Sachin, 19, a school dropout from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, who came to Delhi about two years ago and lives in Rajeev Nagar, Begumpur, Rohini, was arrested on October 24. Police said he came into contact with Mohit and, through him, with Hyderabad-based handlers. Five mobile phones, ₹10,030, two passbooks, seven cheque books, eight ATM or debit cards and a POS-related device were seized.
The operation was supervised by DCP Outer North Shobhit D. Saksena and Joint CP Northern Range Vijay Singh, with a team led by Additional DCP Prakshay Kumar Singh, ACP/Cyber Firoz Alam and SHO/Cyber Haroon Ahmad.
