CCB police arrested Cab aggregator Vendor and two others for cheating cab aggregators by generating fake trips and seized 1055 Pre-activated SIM and 15 mobile phones

Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)

The Central Crime Branch police have busted a racket and arrested vendor of a cab aggregator and two of his friends for cheating Ola and Uber companies by feeding fake trip details to earn incentives illegally .

Based on a complaint filed a team of CCB officials raided his work station in Kalyana Nagar and arrested Manoj Kumar on Tuesday.

Based on his information the police arrested his associate who worked as executive in a finance company and SIM card distributor in telecom (vodafone) company.

Senior officer told reporters the accused was coordinating between the taxi drivers details and their trip and uploading on the cab aggregator companies websites and get incentives .

Misusing this,he hatched a plan to make quick money and roped in two of his associates for the job.As per the plan,his associates being sim card distributor created fake documents and provided over 1000 pre-activated SIM cards using which Manoj Kumar would create fake documents and create trip details from different SIM cards and create hundreds of fake trips to get incentives .

The money earned through the racket is being distributed among the accused .

The racket came to light when one of the customer visited his work station by chance and noticed Manoj Kumar was operating with 15 mobile phones changing SIM cards frequently to raise trip request to create fake records .

On suspicion he complained to the CCB who raided his work station and seized the equipments which includes 1055 pre activated SIM cards,15 mobile phones,four laptops,and other electronic gadgets.

The police booked the trio under IT Act,Indian Telegraph act and also under cheating and forgery for further investigations.