Delhi’s Cyber Police Station busted a cyber racket
New Delhi: According to Delhi Police authorities, a cyber ring that was allegedly extorting Rs 8.10 Lakh from a lady by posing as Telecom department, CBI, and ED officers was caught by the North District Cyber Police station.
The accused allegedly kept the lady, her daughter and her father effectively prisoners for 48 hours and demanded Rs 8.10 lakh in return for taking her name off of the fictitious files they said they had against her, according to Deputy Commissioner Raja Banthia on Tuesday.
The FIR states that on March 24, the complainant claimed to have received a call from an unidentified number posing as the Telecom Department of Delhi. The caller threatened to use a phoney SIM card against her.
Additionally, she got video calls from unidentified WhatsApp numbers claiming to be from the CBI and ED agencies. The Deputy Commissioner’s statement said that the scammers threatened to arrest the woman complainant and implicate her in a money laundering case.
According to officials, between March 5 and March 7, the accused emailed the lady counterfeit CBI and ED papers with Supreme Court stamps, putting her family under “digital arrest”.
According to the North District Cyber Police’s early investigation, the call originated in the Greater Kailash, East of Kailash, and Zamrudpur regions. On March 31, three accused—Raja Mandal (27), the account holder; Tushar Thapa (23); and Saurabh Tiwari (23), both account providers/agents—were arrested after the police raided the locations after obtaining call record details and tracking down the money. Four cellphones were also seized.
According to the results of the preliminary investigation, the victim in this instance was deceived in a highly methodical and professional way. “Both manual intelligence and technical surveillance have been continuously developed,” said the Dy Commissioner of the North District Police.
Raids in the Chanakyapuri and R K Puram area on March 3 also resulted in the recovery of another cell phone and the arrest of Anup Kumar Tiwari, age 23.
“After a thorough interrogation, he disclosed that he had also received around 18 lakh rupees in his account. Additionally, after leaving their Mahindra Thar there, the culprit slipped from the scene, according to the police.
According to Deputy Commissioner Banthia, Tiwari received compensation for his activities as an account holder and established bank accounts on orders from others.
The investigation into this case is ongoing, and attempts are being made to apprehend the co-accused individuals who have fled.