
One arrested for cheating mobile phone shopkeepers
The Hindu
He showed fake payment screenshots
A 25-year-old man was arrested for cheating mobile phone shopkeepers on the pretext of purchasing phone by showing fake screenshots of payment, the police said on Saturday.
DCP (Central) Shweta Singh Chauhan said that the accused has been identified as Hemant Vashisht, resident of Faridabad in Haryana.
The police said that a case was registered on Thursday at cyber police station in Central district. Mohsin Khan, a shopkeeper at Rajinder Nagar, told the police that in August, a customer had come to his shop to purchase a mobile phone. The customer wished to make his payment through online mode and showed a screenshot of the payment. Later, the shopkeeper found that no payment was made by the person and that the screenshot showed to him was fake, the police said.

Former CM B.S. Yediyurappa had challenged the first information report registered on March 14, 2024, on the alleged incident that occurred on February 2, 2024, the chargesheet filed by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), and the February 28, 2025, order of taking cognisance of offences afresh by the trial court.