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A businessman residing in the same area of Rewa police station was kept under digital arrest in his own house for 6 hours. The criminals kept the young prisoner in his own home via video call and got money transferred from his account to theirs. On the second day of the incident, when the young man found out about the cyber fraud that had happened to him, he went to the police station and filed a complaint about the matter. This is a case of digital arrest in Rewa.
Nitin Verma, a resident of Nehru Nagar, is a businessman by profession. On November 10, around 8 am, a call came on Nitin’s mobile, in which the caller told Nitin that after 2 hours his mobile service would be completely cut off. For more information we forward your call to customer service. As soon as the call was transferred to customer care, the person sitting on the other end started engaging Nitin in his chats and talked about registering an FIR.
accused of buying drugs
The fake customer service offender told the victim that an FIR had been registered against him in Delhi. An account was opened using his Aadhar card, from which medicines worth Rs 180 million were purchased. All your bank accounts will now be verified. Deposit the amount deposited into all bank accounts that you have in our custody. Nitin fell into the trap of the gang of goons and transferred Rs 99,000, Rs 38,000 and Rs 12,000 to some account of Bank of Maharashtra.
Businessman remained digitally detained for 6 hours
After this, the victim received a video call and the criminal said that he was being investigated. During this time you cannot talk about anything. You remain seated in one place. The victim continued to be trapped in the criminals’ trap. From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., the victim remained confined in his own home for 6 hours via video call. The money he had sent to a safe place was also not returned. The next day, when Nitin Verma informed his family about the incident, he realized that he had been cyber-hacked. He filed a complaint about the incident. The police immediately registered the case and started tracking down the miscreants. The cyber team has also been activated in this regard.
Online fraud worth thousands of rupees before digital arrest
The criminals had deceived the businessman under the pretext of working online before arresting him digitally. The cybercriminal gang called the victim Nitin Verma on October 19 and lured him to work online. The accused had sent a link to his WhatsApp number, in which Rs 150 was credited to the victim’s account in exchange for the rating. After this, the gang of goons completed the online task, in which they made the victim deposit Rs 5,000 first. After this, Rs 32,000, Rs 50,000 and Rs 49,800 were transferred.
When the victim asked for his money back, the defendant asked him to complete the additional task. After this, they were asked to deposit Rs 38800 and Rs 4 lakh once again to return the previous amount. After this, the victim dialed the number several times to return the amount, but the criminals gave several excuses and turned off the phone. After making him a victim of online fraud, the miscreants arrested the businessman digitally and defrauded the victim of Rs 10 lakh 73.
police statement
SP Vivek Singh said businessman Nitin Verma has become a victim of fraud in two ways. Firstly, the miscreants cheated him of thousands of rupees in the name of online work. A few days later, he was digitally arrested and defrauded of thousands of rupees. In this way he was defrauded of approximately 10 lakh 73 thousand rupees. The cyber team is active and the investigation is underway; The police will soon reach the gang of thugs.
(Ashok Mishra News from Rewa)
