Directors of e-Portal “dealsdilki.com” arrested

Hyderabad: Cyber Crime Police of Rachakonda arrested two Directors of e-commerce portal www.dealsdilki.com for cheating a Sr. Zonal Sales Manager of reputed company, of Rs. 5,11,899/-, promising him of delivery of a ‘Honda Amaze’ car which he was stated, by the accused, to have won in a lucky draw for his previous purchase from their portal.

The arrested were identified as Amit Biduri (29) of Okhla, New Delhi and Chandra Shaker Upadhyaya (42), of Noida Sector -49, Uttar Pradesh; from Okhla Industrial Area, New Delhi.

In the second week of Aug. 2016, the victim purchased an item worth Rs.2,000/-online from www.dealsdilki.com with the registration on the name of M/s. HYL Marketing Pvt. Ltd., Okhla; The items were delivered after one week and immediately on the receipt of the parcel, he received e-mail from [email protected] that he won a ‘Honda Amaze’ car for doing online shopping from his website. For that, they asked him to pay only for the registration and delivery charges for receiving the car.

Believing it to be true, initially he paid Rs. 2499/- on 23rd of Aug. 2016. After that, the accused through lady tele-callers made him to transfer money for charges like insurance, colour, handling charges, facilitation fee, etc. Likewise, the victim has paid Rs.3,18,899/- till Dec. 2016. When the accused continuously asked the victim to deposit the money for claiming the car, he asked them to return the money he paid to them.

From first week of Jan. 2017 the victim started receiving calls from new numbers claiming to be calling on behalf of the accused and asked him to pay money for legal process charges for the return of the money he already paid. Trusting their words and because of constant persuasion through phone calls he further paid Rs.1,93,000/- for claiming the previously paid sum. Totally, he paid Rs.5,11,899/- Ultimately, he realized that he was cheated and lodged a complaint at Cyber Cell, Rachakonda Commissionerate.

After gathering information about the accused operating from a new location Okhla Industrial Area, a team consisting of Md. Riyazuddin, Inspector of Police, SIs Sri. D. Ashish Reddy, S. Anil Kumar and staff went to New Delhi and apprehended two Directors of www.dealsdilki.com and brought them to Hyderabad on ‘transit remand’ and are remanded to judicial custody.

In this case, it is pertinent to note that, the victim even after lodging the complaint at Cyber Cell, paid Rs.41,700/- in two spells as the tele-callers persuaded him to do that as FINAL STEPS for return of the money to him.

Public are advised to place online orders with trusted e-commerce portals and not to remit money to the bank accounts shared by the tele-callers. Under no circumstances the customers should disclose their card details over phone calls for initiating payments for items purchased, as there is every possibility of misuse of such details, for additional deductions of money from their accounts. People are suggested not to fall prey to false claims of winning of prizes in lucky draws and from losing their hard-earned money.

The case is being investigated by Mohammad Riyazuddin, Inspector of Police, Cyber Cell, Rachakonda; under the supervision of Smt. D. Janaki, Addl. DCP (Crimes), Rachakonda. The Commissioner of Police, Rachakonda Mahesh M. Bhagwat, I.P.S appreciated the efforts of Cyber Cell in detecting the case.