- Cyber fraudsters cheat 8.5 lakh rupees by digital arrest
Chronicle Reporter, Bhopal
The state cyber police has returned about five lakh rupees to an 81-year-old elderly person.
Cyber fraudsters digitally arrested the elderly person by saying that there was hawala money in his bank account and cheated him of eight and a half lakh rupees by posing as Mumbai Crime Branch, CBI and bank officers. In this case, two fraudsters have been caught from Bikaner in Rajasthan. Other gang members are being searched. According to the information, in May 2024, an unknown person called the elderly person posing as a State Bank officer. He told the elderly person that a fake account has been opened using his KYC documents, in which hawala money has come. The applicant was digitally arrested by posing as an officer of Mumbai Crime Branch, CBI, ED and he was cheated of Rs 8 lakh 45 thousand 866.
On receiving the complaint, the state cyber police had registered a fraud case against unknown persons.
Accused arrested from Rajasthan
During the investigation, the police took information about all the bank accounts related to the crime and found them in different states. After this, information about the registered mobile number was obtained. In this, the account holder and the user of the mobile number registered in the account were found to be from Nokha Bikaner Rajasthan. As soon as the accused were identified, a team of state cyber police reached Bikaner Rajasthan and arrested 2 accused and sent them to jail in judicial custody.
10 lakh rupees frozen in accounts
The accused had 10 lakh 2 thousand 336 rupees in their account, which was frozen by the police. Out of this, an amount of 4 lakh 99 thousand 999 rupees was handed over to the applicant from the amount defrauded from the 81-year-old man. Inspector Rama Masram Parte, Sub Inspector Pravendra Dubey and others made a commendable contribution in arresting the accused.
