Air Marshal Ravinder Kumar (Retd.), ex-Advisor to the Government of Gujarat had purchased a flat in Mohali, Chandigarh and wanted to register a PSPCL electric meter for the house. He searched for a helpline number on Google and called on 7008677490 on the website of PSPCL. It was a fake website.  

One Amit Kumar spoke to him, and asked him to transfer Rs 25. He was then asked to link his Google Pay UPI with CRED of SBI and an HDFC account. After this, an amount of Rs. 3,26,000 was allegedly debited at different intervals. 

On compliant of Air Marshal, the money trail led to one Neeraj Gupta, a resident of Kolkata. On interrogation he informed that he has given the account to his brother Dheeraj Gupta to operate. On arrest of Dheeraj, it was informed that he had lend the account and SIMs to one Safiq Ansari alias Guddu. This finally led to arrest of complete gang.  

Safiq Ansari alias Guddu, Shehnvaz Ansari, Yusuf Ansari, Tanvir Alam and Irfan Ansari were running a call centre for committing frauds from an old house at the slum area in Malanch in Kharagpur. A police team led by ASI Balwan Chand of UT police raided the call centre and arrested them.