New Delhi: The Delhi Police has booked seven individuals who performed a “pretend” raid in opposition to a person residing in DLF Farms space and tried to extort Rs 5 crore from him by impersonating as Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers.
The federal probe company issued a press release Friday saying it was knowledgeable on October 22, round 12 pm that “some folks posing as ED officers have been conducting a pretend ED search at Ashoka Avenue, DLF Farms in Chattarpur space of south Delhi.”
“It was additionally knowledgeable that the pretend ED officers have taken the sufferer to Kotak financial institution in Hauz Khas to withdraw Rs 5 crore from his checking account in order that the identical will be taken away within the title of ED raid,” the company mentioned.
The sufferer knowledgeable ED and police officers that seven folks got here to his home within the evening of October 21 in two automobiles and claimed to be ED officers who had come for executing a raid.
He instructed the officers that three folks interacted with him as the remainder wore face masks.
The conmen requested the sufferer as to why he was withdrawing money repeatedly from his checking account, the ED mentioned.
Additionally they confirmed him some cheques of his previous checking account and the “pretend” ED officers threatened to arrest him and take him away until he agreed to pay them crores of rupees, the company mentioned.
Because the sufferer said that the cash might be taken out solely from the financial institution subsequent morning, the pretend ED officers stayed on the sufferer’s home that evening.
When the fraudsters took the person to the financial institution subsequent day, he “managed” to message his lawyer who quickly landed on the financial institution and confronted the conmen and sought their IDs, in keeping with the ED.
“The pretend ED officers grew suspicious of being caught and ran away earlier than the financial institution gates might be closed by the financial institution Supervisor,” the ED mentioned.
A few of those that stayed again on the sufferer’s house additionally ran away after they obtained a wink of what occurred on the financial institution. They, nevertheless, weren’t capable of take the automobiles with them because the gates of the home have been locked, the ED mentioned.
It was after this that the company officers have been knowledgeable they usually reached the financial institution together with the police.
The police registered an FIR, recorded the assertion of the sufferer, and seized the automobiles that have been parked at his home, the ED mentioned.
