Man arrested for duping people through online shopping

New Delhi: Delhi Police has arrested a 27-year-old man in the capital for allegedly cheating people on the pretext of a lucky draw in online shopping.
Police said that the accused along with his associates used to hire and train undergraduate boys and girls for making outbound calls to their targets and luring them for shopping from their website.
The accused has been identified as Deepak Negi who is a native of Tehri, Uttarakhand and was living in Delhi’s Sangam Vihar.
According to Chinmoy Biswal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), South East district, in May, a complaint was received from a woman, who is a professor in a university in Odisha against an e-commerce company – key4kart.com – with its office in Kalkaji area.
“The complainant alleged that in April, 2018 she received a call from the shopping company who induced her to shop on their online platform. Thereafter, the victim purchased clothes for Rs 1,299 through online shopping. When the victim received the product, she found it was substandard and fake,” said the DCP.
“Subsequently, a mail was received by the victim congratulating her for winning a Royal Enfield bike in a lucky draw. She was asked to submit some percentage of the prize value along with her photo and Aadhaar ID following which she deposited around Rs 62,000 through net banking but no prize was sent to the victim as promised,” said the DCP.