Cops unearth MSP fraud, 4 held

THE ACCUSED DIVERTED MSP PAYMENT OF FARMERS TO THEIR ACCOUNTS BY REPLACING THEIR MOBILE NUMBERS WITH THEIR OWN

- HT Correspondent

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Police's State Cybercrime Division has unearthed a minimum support price (MSP) payment fraud with the arrest of four people involved in manipulating the Anaaj Kharid portal to divert crop payments from farmers to their own bank accounts.

Additional director general of police (ADGP), cybercrime division, V Neeraja said the arrested accused have been identified as Manish, Jasvir Singh, Angrej Singh and Balwinder Singh.

Police teams have also recovered digital devices and routers used by them to commit the fraud. Neeraja said the accused used an innovative modus operandi to divert the payment of crop of the farmers to their accounts fraudulently by replacing the mobile numbers of the farmers with their mobile numbers and, thereafter, using the same to update bank account information of the farmers.