Two engineering students in Rajasthan’s Kota district were arrested on Thursday for allegedly conning e-commerce giant Flipkart out of Rs 1.05 crore and 152 expensive mobile phones, PTI reported. They were identified as Rahul Meena and Dharmaraj Meena, both 20 years old.
In September, Flipkart had filed a complaint about the fraud. In its complaint, Flipkart said the two would order expensive mobile sets using different names, IDs and addresses, then falsely claim they had received empty boxes and get refunds from the company. They had been carrying out the con job for a year-and-a-half, the company added.
“Doubts arose when company officials noticed that two bank account numbers sent for the refunds were same,” Sawai Singh Godara, Superintendent of Police told PTI. The students have been remanded in police custody for six days. The police have also arrested five people for buying and reselling the phones the two students had accrued, PTI reported.
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