20yo from Surat nabbed for duping Roorkee man of 43L

Dehradun: Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) and state cyber police arrested a 20-year-old man from Surat on Monday for allegedly duping a Roorkee resident by offering lucrative returns in stock trading and investing in IPOs.
According to police, Sameer Dilawar Patel (20) first contacted the victim, a trader, on a social media platform and made him invest large sums of money on different occasions on a fake stock trading website run by him and his absconding accomplices.
Senior superintendent of police (SSP), STF and state cyber police, Ayush Agrawal, said Patel was tracked down using electronic evidence.
“We found the accused had made the complainant open an account in a fake stock trading website named ‘gpc.boutique’ last year apart from making a couple of WhatsApp groups of stock-related suggestions. After his first investments, they gave him returns in the initial months. Once the amount became Rs 43 lakh, they stopped offering him returns when he tried to withdraw the money,” said Agrawal. He added they told him the amount was locked in one of the major stocks and if he wanted to “unlock it, he needed to make another investment of over Rs 10 lakh”.
“He then realised he had been duped and filed a complaint in June. A case of fraud was registered under relevant sections of BNS and IT Act,” said Agrawal.