Pramesh S Jain
Posing as police officials from Mumbai crime branch, cyber frauds duped a 83-year-old retired army colonel threatened to foist him in a fake case and made away with ₹56 lakh from his bank accounts.
Based on the complaint filed by, Fredrick D’SA,resident of Cunningham Raod Cross,the central division cyber crime police on Tuesday registered a case against unknown people charging them under IT act and also under section 318(4) ( cheating ) of BNS for further investigation.
According to the complainant,on October 27 he received a call on his mobile and the person introduced himself as Sanjay Pishe,Inspector with Mumbai police.
The accused informed Mr.DSa that a case has been booked against him for harassing public through mobile phone and the SIM was registered in his name .
He asked him to appear before the Mumbai police as soon as police failing which he would be arrested.
Shocked Dsa tried to reason with him that he was not aware of anything and said that h could not be able to travel to Mumbai citing his age .
Pishe later asked his colleague to coordinate where another fake officer identified as Kavitha Pomane offered to help and conduct the probe through Video call .
She roped in another fake officer identified as Vishwas and the duo asked him not to disclose this to anyone threatened to arrest.
Dsa followed their instructions and as per their instructions shared all his family details,bank accounts and personal details .
They told him to hat would be freezing the account for few days to check the transactions as per the RBI guidelines as it was suspected money laundering .
The accused accessed to his bank accounts and until November 12,transferred a total sum of Rs.56,05,200 including the mutual funds after liquidating them.They promised to return the transferred money in three days and vanished .
The fraud came to light when there was no response after emptying his accounts and Dsa tried to reach them but there was no response.
The police have advised people not to entertain such calls and report such matters to their family members or call 1930 for immediate help .
In a similar incident,cyber fruads posing as Mumbai police threatened a 71-year-old man human trafficking and money laundering case threaten him with digital arrest and made away with ₹2.12 crore on November 5.
The victim Sudhakar Choudary,resident of Channasandra was approached by the accused on phone stating that a complaint has been registered against him and he would be arrested.
They forced him to share the bank account details before transferring the savings and escaped.The white field police have registered a case against the unknown person charging them under section 318 ( cheating) and section 319 ( cheating by personation) of BNS and also under ITAct.
