Delhi Police today claimed to have busted racket running a fake friendship club with the arrest of seven women and two men, who allegedly duped people of around Rs 18 lakh.
Delhi Police today claimed to have busted racket running a fake friendship club with the
arrest of seven women and two men, who allegedly duped people of around Rs 18 lakh.
The Varsha International friendship club, which was operating from Hudson Lane in north Delhi's Kingsway Camp, allegedly collected huge amounts from people by offering them contact numbers of women willing to be friends, Additional Commissioner (Crime) Satyendra Garg told reporters.
Umesh (21), the alleged kingpin, Nagender Sharma (27) and seven women, aged between 18 and 43 years, were arrested yesterday from their office in Hudson Lane while one Manjesh, who allegedly gave the idea to operate such a facility to earn
quick money, is absconding.
Earlier on March 27, police claimed that they unearthed a similar club -- SG International Friendship Club- operating in north-west Delhi's Muhkerjee Nagar with the
arrest of nine who allegedly duped people of Rs 15 lakh.
Umesh allegedly advertised in leading newspapers in Delhi, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra and paid Rs 5,000 per month to his women employees with extra incentives based on the additional money they could get from customers. The
women doubled up as tele-callers as well as fake women friends.There were three categories of membership in the club raging between Rs 3,000 and Rs 7,000 and charges varied for a period of friendship desired for more than one month.
The lower category included college girls and housewives as friends while middle category included teachers, doctors and other professionals. The upper category members were promised models and air hostess as friends.
"The caller who approaches the club will be promised contact numbers of women willing to be friends and then a bank account number was given to him where he has to deposit money", Garg said. The bank accounts were also opened using fake documents. "They had customers from all over India. They opened an account in ICICI Bank using fake documents. They operated about four accounts and from one account, it came to light they had garnered around Rs 18 lakh," he said.
"What actually took place was that after receiving the money, one of the women entertained the customers on the telephone for sometime. All efforts were made to squeeze out more money from the callers," he said.
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