National News 2025-08-08

FIVE NOTORIOUS FRAUDSTERS OF JODHPUR/BALOTRA GANG ARRESTED BY STAFF OF PS CYBER, SOUTH WEST DISTRICT.

Mahesh Chandra - Delhi

MONEY TRAIL OF OVER ? 42 LAKHS UNEARTHED IN THE ACCOUNTS.
ACCUSED RAVINDRA IS KINGPIN OF GANG & A MULE ACCOUNT PROVIDER, WHO USED TO TRANSFER THE CHEATED MONEY FROM MULE ACCOUNTS TO CHINESE GANG THROUGH USDT
10 MOBILE PHONES, 12 PROXY SIM CARDS, 7 MULE BANK ACCOUNTS, 7 DEBIT CARS, 02 JIO ROUTERS AND 3 SUSPECT IDS RECOVERED.
COMPLAINANT WAS DUPED OF ?17.31 LAKHS.
07 NCRP COMPLAINTS FOUND LINKED TO ALLEGED ACCOUNTS.

The staff of Cyber Police Station, South West District had arrested 05 Notorious cyber cheaters/fraudsters of Jodhpur/Balotra gangs namely 1. Ravindra Vishnoi R/o Jodhpur City, Rajasthan, age 28 years, 2. Mahipal R/o Jodhpur City, Rajasthan, age 27 years, 3. Mohd. Yaseen R/o Baltora, Rajasthan, 4. Rohit Nimbawat @ Ronny @ Vikky R/o Baltora, Rajasthan, age 24 years & 5. Yash Vaishnav R/o Balotra, Rajasthan, age 23 years. With their arrest, total 10 High End Mobile phones, 12 proxy SIM Cards, 07 mule bank accounts, 07 Debit Cards, 02 JIO Routers and 3 Suspect IDs were recovered.

INCIDENT:

On 12.06.25, a complainant residing in Munirka Village lodged an online complaint on NCRP regarding online financial fraud of Rs. 17,31,425 wherein, he alleged that on 11.06.2025, he was added to a Telegram group named “971 CBOE”. Upon enquiry, he was informed that he could earn ?50 per task by completing Google reviews for hotels across India. Initially, he received payments as promised. Subsequently, he was directed to visit a website, where he was instructed to register with a username and password. He was then told to invest a minimum of ?2,000 (for new users) up to ?1.5 lakhs (for VIP users), with a promised return of 30%-40%. UPI IDs were provided for making the payments. Initially, he was asked to invest more for “economy tasks” and was told that ?2,000 was only for newcomers. He was asked to invest ?15,000, which he did. Following successful trades, he was asked to complete three more tasks, requiring further investments of ?30,000, ?90,100 & ?1,60,000. After these transactions, he was shown a balance of ?3,62,650, but withdrawal was again denied, citing a “technical error” and that the account was frozen. To unfreeze the account, he was asked to pay ?4,36,325. After compliance, the balance shown was ?11,98,462. Later, he was further asked to deposit on one pretext or other and he was duped of ?17,31,425/-. Accordingly, a case vide FIR No. 02/2025, u/s 308/318(4)/319/340 BNS, PS Cyber, South West District, Delhi was registered and investigation was taken up.

INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED:

Keeping in view the sensitivity of the matter a team comprising SI Sombir, HC Puneet, HC Jitender & HC Vikram was constituted under the supervision of Insp. Pravesh Kaushik, SHO/PS Cyber South West and under the overall supervision of Sh. Vijay Kumar, ACP/Operations, South West.

Initially, the team worked on the technical aspects of the case and obtained technical details from banks, TSPs etc., however the accused persons were using mule accounts, SIMs and were constantly on the run and changing their locations. The dedicated efforts of the team bore fruits and finally a clue was revealed about one of the accused who was account holder Mohd. Yaseen R/o Baltora, Rajasthan, who was apprehended. On interrogation, it was revealed that he had sold his account to some Vikky @ Rohit and Yash Vaishnav. He was arrested in case after following due procedure. Thereafter, several raids were conducted at the hideouts of the co-accused Rohit Nimbawat @ Ronny @ Vikky and Yash Vaishnav on the basis of technical surveillance and at the instance of accused Mohd. Yaseen. Finally, both the accused Rohit Nimbawat @ Ronny @ Vikky R/o Baltora, Rajasthan and Yash Vaishnav R/o Balotra, Rajasthan, were located and apprehended. On interrogation, they disclosed that they are involved in supplying the mule accounts to one Ravi who is a kingpin of gang of Balotra and Jodhpur, who purchases mule account from PAN India. After following due procedure both the accused were arrested in this case.

Thereafter, raids were conducted in Jodhpur, Balotra and Jaipur but accused Ravi kept on absconding. Finally, after conducting raids at various places in Delhi & Rajasthan the accused was located at Bolinj Distt. Phalghar, Maharashtra. Raids were conducted and he was also apprehended. He disclosed that he along with his friend Mahipal R/o Jodhpur City, Rajasthan took bank accounts from various account holders on commission basis and further use that account on telegram groups to transfer the duped amount to accused based in China through USDT. They also provide Nepal and Singapore mule bank account to Chinese fraudsters. After having sufficient evidence on record, he was also arrested. 4 mobile phones,12 mule sim cards, 7 mule account pass book and debits cards, 2 wifi dongal were recovered from his possession. Thereafter, he was taken on transit remand and brought to Delhi and taken on PC remand. Thereafter raid was conducted and co-accused Mahipal R/o Distt. -Jodhpur was also arrested.

PROFILE OF ACCUSED ARRESTED:

1. Ravindra Vishnoi R/o Jodhpur City, Rajasthan, age 28 years has studied till class 12th and running Pharmacy Shop. He put mule accounts on telegram group for the purpose of USDT sale/purchase. He is in contact with foreign based gangs and provides the mule account for transferring the cheated amount and then withdraws the amount and transfers the cheated amount through USDT to foreign based cheaters.

2. Mahipal R/o Jodhpur City, Rajasthan, age 27 years has studied till class 12th and running Mobile Shop. He used to entice locals to provide mule accounts. He works in close collaboration with Ravindra Vishnoi.

3. Mohd. Yaseen R/o Baltora, Rajasthan was the mule account holder.

4. Rohit Nimbawat @ Ronny @ Vikky R/o Baltora, Rajasthan, age 24 years used to provide mule accounts to Ravindra Vishnoi.

5. Yash Vaishnav R/o Balotra, Rajasthan, age 23 years also used to provide mule account to Ravindra Vishnoi.

RECOVERY:

1. 10 mobile phones,

2. 12 proxy SIM Cards,

3. 7 mule Bank Accounts,

4. 7 Debit Cards,

5. 02 Jio Routers

6. 3 suspect IDs.

CASE WORKED OUT:

1. FIR No. 02/2025, u/s 308/318(4)/319/340 BNS, PS Cyber, South West District, Delhi.

Further investigation is under progress.

Bureau Chief Mahesh Chandra - Delhi

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Date: 10-06-2026