Delhi Police nab Uttarakhand man for selling fake online Taj Mahal tickets
Delhi Police nab Uttarakhand man for selling fake online Taj Mahal tickets
The software engineer had set up a website after losing job during Covid
New Delhi, Jan. 22 (Delhi Crown): A young software engineer has been nabbed by the Delhi Police from Uttarakhan’s Champawat area for allegedly selling fake online tickets for visiting Taj Mahal.
He had duped many innocents before being picked up by the Delhi Police from his home on Friday night.
Identified as Sandeep Chand, the software engineer had lost his job during Covid-19 pandemic and resorted to selling fake online tickets for Taj Mahal to get easy money.
A senior official of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) had lodged a complaint with the Delhi Police regarding the sale of fake online tickets, following which the police traced down Sandeep Chand to Uttarakhand’s Champawat area with the help of technical surveillance.
The accused had formed a website www.agramonuments.in for selling online Taj Mahal tickets after carefully studying the ASI’s website, and started getting easy money into his bank account.
Online frauds are galore these days whereby the fraudsters indulge in duping gullible persons. In certain cases, innocent people have been duped by lakhs of Rupees. Considering the rising number of such cases, the Delhi Police recently set up Cyber Crime Police Stations across the national capital.
