Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh – In a significant breakthrough, the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) arrested two members of a gang that allegedly secured home loans using forged documents and duped unsuspecting victims.
The arrested accused have been identified as:
Vineet Kumar, a resident of BB Kheda Awas Vikas Colony in Para
Deepak Rawat, a resident of Rajajipuram, Lucknow
They were apprehended on Sunday from different locations in the city.
The case came to light after Chand Babu, a resident of Thakurganj, filed a complaint alleging that he was duped of over Rs5 lakh. The accused promised to arrange a home loan worth Rs50.9 lakh and collected money in instalments as file preparation charges, commission, and registry fees.
However, upon verification, Chand Babu found that the demand drafts shown to him—Rs10 lakh and Rs40.9 lakh—were fake.
Upon arrest, the STF recovered a trove of evidence:
5 mobile phones
7 ATM cards
4 PAN cards
3 forged Aadhaar cards
1 driving licence
103 photocopies of loan documents (both forged and genuine)
1 desktop computer used to create fake documents
28 signed cheques
1 motorcycle without a registration number
During interrogation, Vineet and Deepak confessed that they were operating the racket along with Abhishek Soni and Amit Rastogi, who are currently absconding.
According to Dy SP Avnishwar Chandra Srivastava, the gang had been running the fake loan racket for several months, using computer software to generate forged documents. They frequently changed mobile numbers and locations to avoid being tracked.
The STF is continuing its investigation and expects more arrests in the coming days.
