New Delhi: Delhi Police has arrested a 33-year-old man for allegedly duping a senior cardiologist of Rs 6.69 lakh by posing as an Army man. According to police, the victim, a south Delhi resident, filed a complaint stating that the accused contacted him, seeking medical consultations for 25 Army personnel at a fee of Rs 1,500 each. The man then allegedly obtained the doctor’s UPI details to pay the consultation fee. This led to several unauthorised transactions, draining funds from both the doctor’s and his wife’s bank accounts. An FIR was registered at south Delhi cyber police station under BNS sections 318 (cheating) and 319 (cheating by personation). “The team followed the money trail and discovered that Rs 6 lakh was used to repay a car loan while Rs 70,000 was diverted towards credit card payments,” DCP (south) Ankit Chauhan said. Based on digital surveillance, the accused, identified as Jalaluddin, alias Jallu (33), was tracked down to Khairthal, Rajasthan, and arrested. Police seized his car and three mobile phones. The seized phones were found to be linked to 26 additional complaints registered on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal. Police also disclosed that Jalaluddin had used pre-recorded video footage of Army personnel during video calls to gain the victim’s trust. He later convinced the doctor that the payments would be routed through a credit card system before obtaining the account details and executing the fraudulent transactions.
