Overview
- Arrests include mastermind Vikash Kumar and telecom employee Baljeet Singh, with seven women telecallers held at a Tilak Nagar call centre.
- Police traced more than 40 linked complaints on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal and registered a case under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
- Investigators seized 22 mobile phones, a desktop, 19 SIM cards, call registers, a Wi‑Fi router, eight UPI IDs and a QR code tied to bank accounts.
- The syndicate advertised bogus airline jobs on OLX and recruited telecallers via Job Hai and Work India to pitch offers using IndiGo-style identifiers.
- Victims were pressed to pay Rs 2,500 as a deposit, then Rs 5,000–8,000 for uniforms, and Rs 10,000–15,000 for a salary account, which kept many small losses unreported.