US dollar cheating case: Delhi Court extends CBI custody of two accused, remands one

New Delhi [India], July 31 : The Rouse Avenue court on Wednesday extended the CBI custody of the two accused, Dhairya and Dhruv Khattar, for another three days. The court remanded one accused to judicial custody.
They have been arrested for alleged cheating worth 15 million US dollars from US citizens.
Judicial Magistrate First Class Nishant Garg extended the CBI custody of Dhairya and Dhruv Khattar until August 3. The court has remanded Tushar Arora into judicial custody.
While seeking further remand of the accused persons, the CBI submitted that during the investigation, the accused disclosed the name of another person who was not found at their address.
It was also submitted that the two accused have not disclosed all the facts about the running of an illegal call center. Their further custody is required to investigate the case.
On Saturday, the court remanded three accused to four days in custody. The other 40 have been remanded to judicial custody.
The other 40 accused were remanded to judicial custody until August 9 by the court.
The bail applications of 33 accused have been dismissed by the court. The accused persons sought bail, challenging their arrest.
The CBI produced 43 accused, including 4 women, in the Rouse Avenue Court after one day of judicial custody. They were arrested on July 25.
They have been arrested by the CBI under Operation Chakra. The CBI has registered an FIR based on the information provided.
The CBI submitted that the custody of the accused is required to unearth the conspiracy and the mastermind.
The CBI has arrested the accused persons for allegedly defrauding US citizens of 15 million US dollars during the period from November 2022 to April 2024.
They were allegedly defrauding the victims by running a call center in Gurugram. One of the victims was defrauded of 6.5 million US dollars.
It was alleged in the CBI FIR that a racket was running whereby residents of the USA were cheated by our residents. Search warrants were acquired, and all the accused were arrested from one place in Gurugram.
Banned software was found at the call center, and in this case, the US and FBI are also involved, the counsel for the CBI submitted.
"Forty-three people are there, and they are running a racket," the CBI said.
The CBI sought police custody, stating that from one of the cars, three mobile phones belonging to Dhairya Khattar and a diary showing transactions of US dollars were found.
The CBI counsel alleged that 15 million US dollars were involved in the case. "We have found a voice recording of the two brothers, Dhairya and Dhruv Khattar, with US persons, regarding the modus operandi," the CBI prosecutor said.
The CBI sought custody of Tushar Arora, a Cloud support engineer, to interrogate and unearth the conspiracy.
On the other hand, the counsel for the accused persons opposed the application seeking custody. It was argued that the CBI raided the premises on 24.7.24 at night.
The accused were produced before the duty magistrate on 26.7.24 at 11.45 pm. On 24.7.24, the accused persons were in their custody, the defense counsel argued.
"They were supposed to be produced within 24 hours. In the arrest memo, they (CBI) said that they were arrested at 6.30 pm on 25.7.24."
"They (accused) were restricted and not allowed to go anywhere, so the arrest was effective from 24.7.24," the counsels for the accused argued.
"Until last night, the accused persons did not even have a copy of the remand application or the FIR."
"The accused persons were not even informed of the grounds for arrest."
On the other hand, the counsel for the CBI said that the grounds of arrest were communicated to the accused persons, and a search was conducted after obtaining a search warrant, which ran for hours only after the accused were arrested. There is no grudge against the accused.