Delhi Police arrests 3 men for deceiving over 1,000 people with fake government website

Delhi Police arrests 3 men for deceiving over 1,000 people with fake government website

New Delhi, May 18 (PTI) Three men were arrested for allegedly defrauding more than 1,000 people across India of over Rs 17 lakh issuing forged certificates and IDs related to the Common Service Centers, police said on Thursday.

Monu Sharma, 24, Kuldeep Singh, 27, and Chitresh Goyal, 26, were arrested for duping rural people with a fake website and taking money from them for government services, they said.

Common Service Centers or CSC is a government initiative to deliver e-services to rural and remote locations where availability of computers and internet is sparse or negligible.