A 25-year-old MBA student has been arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly cheating people using a fake Instagram account on which he posed as a woman and sold fake cryptocurrency and investment schemes, officers said. E-vouchers worth Rs 15 lakh were found with the accused, besides the details of two Google accounts and a fake Instagram account used by him, the police noted. The accused, Rajat Aggarwal, was arrested from his residence in Haryana after the police received a complaint from a woman alleging that she was cheated of more than Rs 1.7 lakh online. Aggarwal, who is also a singer, created an Instagram account by the name ‘divya_garg_2’ on which he posed as a woman and regularly posted about investing in cryptocurrency and “doubling money”, the police said. In the complaint received at Outer District cyber police station, the complainant alleged that she was approached by the Instagram account and lured to pay Rs 1.7 lakh with the promise of doubling the invested money in less than a month. The woman paid the money in three instalments before realising that she was being conned, the complaint said. The accused, meanwhile, kept forcing her to pay more money, she…
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Delhi: MBA student arrested for using fake Instagram account to cheat woman of Rs 1.7 lakh
