Basti Police, Crime Branch and SOG team of Basti Cyber Police Station have arrested two inter -state cyber thugs. The gang members were fond of gold coins. Used to buy gold coins with cheating money. For this, the gang should not be caught, they used to open accounts in the bank through fake documents. They used to buy gold coin by asking for cyber cheating money in these accounts. The gang members also defrauded the gold businessman of the township. First bought two lakh gold coins. Payed it. Then he cheated the gold businessman in his net and cheated two lakhs. They escaped with both gold coin and money. According to the police, this gang has so far cheated millions of cyber.

Prajwal Gupta, the proprietor of Balak Ram Jewelers located in Gandhi Nagar of Sadar Kotwali, informed the police about the cheating of two lakhs with him. He told that two vicious thugs bought gold coins worth two lakhs from his shop. Payed him but then he cheated two lakhs and escaped. On the information of cheating, with the help of Crime Branch, SOG and surveillance, the police reached the vicious thugs with the help of digital foot print, open source intelligence tool. Arrested two vicious thugs involved in the incident. Vicious thugs caught by Srikanth Verma, Sonu Kumar are residents of Gonda district. Four mobile phones, bikes, 5 fake bank passbooks, 10 debit cards, 7 SIMs, a PAN card, Aadhaar card and check book have been recovered from them.