In Dehradun, a woman was digitally arrested and defrauded of crores, STF scrutinized her horoscope, exposed the gang, arrested the accused from Yamunanagar, Haryana.
The woman had lodged a complaint with the Cyber Crime Police Station, Dehradun, and requested for help.
Dehradun: Police has busted a gang that duped a woman of Rs 1 crore 70 lakh by digitally arresting a woman from the capital Dehradun. Also, the police has arrested the accused from Yamunanagar district, Haryana. This gang, posing as Mumbai Crime Branch and CBI officers, arrested the woman digitally through video call and voice call on Skype App.
A victim resident of Dehradun lodged a complaint at the Cyber Crime Police Station, Dehradun a few days ago. She received a call from Fedex courier on her mobile number. In which it was told that a parcel of yours was sent from Mumbai to Taiwan, your name was on the parcel. Mobile number and email ID are written. There are some illegal documents and items in the parcel. Which contains 5 passports, 5 ATM cards, 1 laptop, 5000 US dollars in cash, 200 grams of MDMA narcotic drug and 04 kg of clothes. On the basis of which, he was threatened with arrest by accusing him of being a part of identity theft, drug smuggling and money laundering case.
After that it was told that there would be non-bailable arrest for 30 to 90 days. After this, information about the parcel was taken by Mumbai Crime Branch. Asked for Aadhar card number. Told that your Aadhaar card has been used many times in money laundering cases. In this case, one will have to come to Mumbai personally and cooperate in the case or record the statement through online medium. On which the woman accepted the proposal to make her statement online. After which he told that Skype App is the official medium for recording the statement. After downloading Skype App, searching for the app, got connected to a crime branch site in Mumbai and started a video call. Police ID card sent in chat. The entire investigation process was explained for hours and it was said that the entire investigation process would be recorded to be presented in the court. Which may take 2 hours to 2 days. During this period, the door was kept closed and it was forbidden to talk to anyone.
After this, information about all his bank accounts was obtained and it was said that irregularities were found in the accounts and RBI should also be involved in this matter. Later, he was asked to transfer all the money to the account given for verification. It was told that after investigation all the money will be returned to the account. He got angry when he expressed his inability to transfer the money. After this they started threatening. By this time he had been defrauded of crores of rupees.
SSP STF Navneet Bhullar said that cyber crime police collected information about bank accounts and mobile numbers used in the incident. After this, data was obtained by corresponding with concerned banks, service provider companies, Meta and Google etc. Analyzing the data obtained, the main accused involved in the incident was identified. After which the main accused Mani Kumar son of Sagar Kumar resident of Yamunanagar Haryana was arrested from Yamunanagar Haryana area.
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