Four from Noida, Gurugram cheat Dahod farmer

VADODARA: Four persons were held from Noida and Gurugram in connection with a fraud promising high rent for a 4G mobile phone tower to a farmer in Dahod.
Those arrested include Niraj Attarsingh, Sunny Tomar, Anish Saifi and Kishankumar Das. Two other accused — Raj Harisingh and Manojkumar Sharma are yet to be arrested.
The accused had contacted the farmer from Charchoda village in Garbada taluka of Dahod district over SMS.They used to buy bulk messaging packs online and sent messages to several persons.
The farmer Raju Bhabhor contacted the accused who made a bogus agreement with him. The entire procedure was conducted online.
During the process, the farmer was also asked to pay money. In all, the accused took Rs 19,60,600 in seven different accounts in over two years.
When Bhabhor realised that he had been cheated, he registered an offence against the accused at the Panchmahal-Godhra Range cybercrime police station. The police traced the accused to Delhi and Noida.
Tomar has three offences registered against him earlier including two with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)and one with the Uttar Pradesh police. Saifi has one offence registered against him in Haryana.