New Delhi: A 56-year-old man was arrested for allegedly duping people on the pretext of securing personal loans, police said on Aug 2.A resident of central Delhi filed a complaint with police alleging a theft of Rs 10,500 under the guise of getting a personal loan. The fraudster allegedly lured him through a loan advertisement and later induced him to transfer the money. An FIR under Section 318 (cheating) of BNS was registered at the cyber police station. DCP (central) Nidhin Valsan said, “The accused was traced by the police through technical surveillance and manual verification. The alleged fraudulent bank account was traced and found to have been made using a forged Aadhaar card under the name of Ramesh Aggarwal.” “Through mobile number analysis and field inquiries, the accused was apprehended on Tuesday and identified as Praveen Kumar, a 56-year-old resident of northwest Delhi’s Shastri Nagar, area” added DCP Valsan. During police interrogation, Kumar revealed that he used a forged identity and Aadhaar card in the name of Ramesh Aggarwal to open a bank account where he would receive the cheated money to evade arrest. He also admitted to distributing and pasting fake loan pamphlets in different areas of the city to target those looking for financial assistance. The police recovered the alleged Aadhaar card in the name of Ramesh Aggarwal from the possession of the accused. Furthermore, they also recovered a mobile phone used in committing the fraud, clothes worn by him at the time of cash withdrawal from the ATM and the loan pamphlet used to lure the complainant from his possession. Further investigation to trace the source of the forged Aadhaar card, identify other possible victims and track if any accomplices were involved is underway.Earlier this month, two men were arrested in a cyber fraud case involving theft of nearly Rs 11 lakh after posing as bank officials.