Overview
- Police said the case opened after a motorist reported being stopped near ITO, assaulted, and forced to transfer ₹18,000 online, which led to an FIR and a focused probe.
- According to investigators, the gang used a mobile app that shows vehicles with pending loan installments to pick targets at busy intersections.
- The suspects posed as bank recovery agents, intercepted drivers in a white Brezza without number plates, and coerced payments through QR codes or other online methods.
- Raids across Delhi and Noida led to the arrests of Prince, Aakash (Akku), Shivam, and Teetu (Tittu), and officers recovered five mobile phones and the white car used in the crimes.
- Police are tracing other victims and a suspected handler of the gang’s payments, and they have also begun looking into the app’s role in feeding personal loan data to extortionists.