SHILLONG: Delhi Police have arrested one Anju Gurung (26) hailing from Sikkim, in the national capital for allegedly enticing a woman from Shillong to deposit money into different accounts on different occasions amounting to Rs. 3 lakh.
The lady from Mylliem had filed an FIR with the police on May 27 informing that one person who was her friend on the social networking site Facebook had entice her to deposit the money in different accounts on different occasions. According to the police, the complainant had filed the FIR only after she realized that she had been cheated.
After receiving the FIR, police informed that the Investigating Officer of the case, BK Mishra, took up the matter with the banks to freeze the different accounts where the victim had deposited the money.
“The IO managed to freeze an amount of about Rs.1 lakh. Then he started tracking the suspects and tracked them from different states in North East India to Sikkim and then to New Delhi,” police informed, while adding that Anju Gurung, one of the account holders, was arrested with the help of Delhi Police and brought to Shillong on transit remand. The accused, Anju Gurung, hails from Sikkim and was working in New Delhi. Other accused are still evading arrest.
