Bihar police catch NSUI leader: Opened accounts from Bhopal; earned ₹5,000 per account

Aman, along with his accomplice Vishal Kumar, son of a Bihar village Sarpanch, used government schemes to lure people and opened over 250 accounts in India Post Payments Bank (IPPB).The accounts were used for suspicious transactions worth around 3 crore rupees.

The fraud reportedly took place while Aman was studying in Bhopal. Police also revealed that the network has links to Pakistan. Authorities in Motihari, Bihar, seized four mobile phones from the accused during their investigation.

Aman is originally from Bihar. He is a third-year Mass Communication student at MCU. He is a resident of Khap Gopalpur, Bihar. While studying in 12th grade in Motihari, he met Irshad, another student and his accomplice in the gang.

Irshad introduced Aman to Arshad, who is based in Pakistan. These three were working together to rob people. According to NSUI Vice President Aman Pathan, Aman Kumar was made the NSUI president at MCU, but he was not active, so he was removed.

Used to open accounts

During police interrogation of the accused in Motihari, it was revealed that these three had opened more than 250 accounts in the Indian Post Payment Bank by luring people with 500 rupees. These accounts were used for transactions of more than 3 crore rupees obtained through fraud.

When account holders asked for their passbooks, they were told that the accounts had been closed. When they asked the Sarpanch and his son about the money coming in, they were put off.

Later, the entire scheme came to light after the bank froze the accounts and the police issued notices to the account holders.

Rs 2500 to Rs 5000 were received

The investigation revealed that Aman Kumar, while living in Bhopal, had been working on opening accounts for the past two years. Besides people from Bihar, he also opened accounts in Bhopal.

After which, he recently reached Motihari from Bhopal. He used to get Rs 2500 to Rs 5000 on each account, he also had a share in the transactions made from the accounts many times.

During interrogation Aman stated that he became friends with Irshad through social media. Irshad lured him with Rs 2,500 to Rs 5,000 per account for providing accounts.

Aman told this to his friend Vishal. Vishal, along with Nikhil and Saddam, opened accounts for villagers in the name of providing benefits from a government scheme and started getting fraudulent money transferred into them.

ABVP raised questions

ABVP National Secretary Shalini Verma said that NSUI is involved in incidents ranging from paper leaks to molestation and rape of female students.

The student organization that does not chant 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai', hesitates to carry the tricolor in its processions, chants slogans for the fragmentation of India, its devotion to Pakistan is clear.

In this fraud case, the connection of a cyber fraud gang linked to Pakistan has come to light with Aman, an activist of NSUI Bhopal.

Evidence of transactions with Pakistani numbers and scanners has been found from Aman's mobile. The investigation revealed that Aman has been involved in this game for the past two years. I want to alert students across the country to avoid joining the NSUI student organization. 

Villagers had complained 20 days ago

In the matter, villagers had complained to the police about 20 days ago. The rural victims told the police that Vishal, the son of the Sarpanch, had opened accounts for them by luring them with the promise of receiving 500 rupees every month, but did not provide the passbooks and later informed them that the accounts had been closed. The account of laborer Muslim Qureshi went into a deficit of 50 thousand rupees.

Other victims like Ashutosh Kumar, Ujjwal Jha, and Ajay Kumar also shared the same experience that their accounts were put on hold and they did not receive money. Following the complaint in the matter, the police have taken two accused into custody on Friday. The Cyber Police Station is investigating the entire network.