Kota: City police have arrested four men from Bhopal for allegedly duping a 75-year-old Kota resident of Rs 43.5 lakh and routing the money to a handler in Pakistan, SP Tejashwani Gautam said Saturday.The accused—Amjad alias Ayan (21), Rahul Purvi (30), Deepak Purvi (20) and Vijay Kumar (32)—were arrested on Thursday and produced in court on Friday, which sent them to five-day police remand for interrogation. Police said the victim filed a complaint at Vigyan Nagar police station in December last year, alleging he was cheated by unidentified people posing as acquaintances. Believing the requests were genuine, he transferred money to multiple bank accounts.A case was registered at Cyber Police Station, Kota, under Sections 318(4) and 319(2) of the BNS and Section 66D of the IT Act.Investigators said the alleged kingpin, operating from Pakistan, communicated with the accused through WhatsApp calls and chats and instructed them to move the money through layers of bank accounts. The accused allegedly arranged accounts for Rs 7,000 each—often in the names of acquaintances—and procured ATM cards, SIM cards and other banking tools to carry out transactions. Police said Rahul Purvi, Deepak Purvi and Vijay Kumar arranged more than 100 bank accounts and provided them to Amjad.
