Vinod M Jain
Cyber frauds posing as Mumbai police,digitally arrest a 35-year-pold software engineer for around 20 days, threatened him with criminal cases before extorting Rs.34 lakh from him .
Based on the complaint filed by the victim,identified as Rajshekhar Reddy from Babusapalya,the East division cyber crime police have registered an FIR on Wednesday charging the unknown accused under section 318 (cheating )and 308 (extortion).
The victim on July 5 received a phone call claiming that the caller from Colaba police station Mumbai and accused him that a phone number in his name was being used to send harassing messages and money laundering .
The accused told Reddy that he is under digital arrest and will be under round the clock surveillance.
The victim shocked and reasoned with the caller for which the caller advised him to cooperate so they could give him a no-objection certificate (NOC).
As per the FIR,the victim was forced to share the bank account details on the pretext on investigation and court hearing .
After the victim followed their instructions,the accused asked him to transfer the money to a verification account to ensure the cash he had was not laundered.
following their instructions,the victim,between July 5 and July 24, transferred a total of Rs.34.69 lakh and arrange the money by getting personal loan and also pawned the gold valuables he has .
The cheating came to light when the accused after getting all the money transferred from the victim, switched off their phones and escaped .
