(MOREPIC1) Face2News/New Delhi
The staff of PS Cyber, South District has done commendable work by apprehending five cheats namely Suman Kumar, Ashish Kumar, Vivek Kumar, Abhishek Kumar including a CCL in case FIR No. 54/23 U/s 419/420/120B IPC, PS CyberSouth. Upon their instance, 07 mobile phones, 01 laptop, 01 pen drive, 01 memory card, 05 SIM cards, 03 debit cards, 03 postdated cheques amounting Rs. 26 Lakhs, Cash Rs. 1,78,500/- were recovered and Rs. 4, 50,000/- were freezed in two Bank accounts–
On 08.07.23, a senior citizen complainant reported at Cyber PS-South District that he received a call from a girl namely Aarohi Jha who claimed to be the daughter of one of his colleagues. The girl told the complainant that her mother is admitted in a Hospital in Bihar and she demanded money for her medical treatment. After few days, she again called the complainant and told her that her mother had expired and she is need of more money to which the complainant transferred the money. Again, after few days, she said that she had met with an accident and admitted in neuro hospital and she kept asking for money either on one pretext or another.
The complainant transferred total Rs. 48,00,000/- in four different bank accounts. Accordingly, on statement of the complainant, a case FIR No. 54/2023 U/s 419/420/120B IPC, PS Cyber, South was registered and investigation was taken up.
Keeping in view the gravity of the case and nature of incident, a team comprising of SI Sandeep Saini, ASI Jitender, HC Vikas, HC Parveen, HC Rajkumar and HC Anil led by Inspr. Arun Kumar Verma, SHO/Cyber PS under overall supervision of ACP/Operations/SD was formed to act swiftly.
During the course of investigation, the complainant was enquired in details. Further, the trail through which the cheated money was transferred into the fraudster’s Bank Account were collected from the concerned bank and details of the mobile phone number through which the text was received by the complainant were also collected and put on extensive surveillance. The team worked on all the available aspects of the case.
The efforts of the team bore fruits when it was revealed that the cheated amount was settled into four different Bank accounts. Account details of the bank accounts were obtained and two bank accounts were found in the name of one Suman Kumar and other account was found in the name of Ashish Kumar. Through surveillance and technical analysis details of the identified accused persons were revealed and it was found that accused Suman Kumar and Ashish Kumar were arrested in case FIR No. 191/2023 U/s 8(c)/21(a) N.D.P.S Act, PS- Bhimnagar O.P, Birpur, Supaul, Bihar with 03 other accused persons and all of them are currently in Supaul Distt. Jail.
(SUBHEAD)Immediately, a production warrant was issued against the above mentioned accused persons and upon their instance, 03 more accused namely Vivek Kumar, Abhishek Kumar and a CCL were apprehended in the present case. The team dispatched to Distt- Saharsa, Bihar and 07 mobile phones, 01 laptop, 01 pen drive, 01 memory card, 05 SIM cards, 03 debit cards, 03 postdated cheques amounting Rs. 26 Lakhs, Cash Rs. 1,78,500/- were recovered and Rs. 4, 50,000/- were freezed in two Bank accounts
KNOW THE ACCUSED:
Suman Kumar S/o Shadev Mistri R/o PS- Bangaon, Distt- Saharsa, Bihar, age – 26 Years. He was previously found to be involved in 02 cases: -I.E. . FIR No. 172/2018, u/s 384/420/467/471/120B/34 IPC, PS Crime Branch, FIR No. 191/2023 U/s 8(c)/21(a) N.D.P.S Act, PS- Bhimnagar O.P, Birpur, Supaul, Bihar
Ashish Kumar S/o Naresh Kamat R/o PS- Bangaon, Distt- Saharsa, Bihar, age – 19 Years. He was previously found to be involved in case FIR No. 191/2023 U/s 8(c)/21(a) N.D.P.S Act, PS- Bhimnagar O.P, Birpur, Supaul, Bihar
Vivek Kumar S/o Sh. Soren Kamat R/o PS- Parsudih, Distt- East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, age – 22 Years. He was previously found to be involved in case FIR No. 191/2023 U/s 8(c)/21(a) N.D.P.S Act, PS- Bhimnagar O.P, Birpur, Supaul, Bihar.
Abhishek Kumar S/o Sh. Ganesh Kumar Jha R/o- Satarwar Mahishi, PS- Mahishi, Distt- Saharsa, Bihar, age – 22 Years. He was previously found to be involved in case FIR No. 191/2023 U/s 8(c)/21(a) N.D.P.S Act, PS- Bhimnagar O.P, Birpur, Supaul, Bihar.
CCL R/o Bihar. He was previously found to be involved in case FIR No. 191/2023 U/s 8(c)/21(a) N.D.P.S Act, PS- Bhimnagar O.P, Birpur, Supaul, Bihar.
RECOVERY:-07 mobile phones, 01 laptop, 01 pen drive and 01 memory card, 5 SIM cards, 3 debit cards and 03 postdated cheques amounting Rs. 26 Lakhs., Cash Rs. 1,78,500/-, Rs. 4, 50,000/- freezed in two Bank accounts
INTERROGATION:– Mr. Chandan Chowdhary, IPS, DCP, said, during the course of interrogation accused Suman Kumar disclosed that he along with Ashish Kumar was previously involved in a case with similar modus operandi in which they cheated Rs. 11 crore. He further disclosed that he targeted people through Facebook and chatted with them to get more details about them and after that he used to use Magic call app to change his voice into a girls voice and Vyapar App to create the fake invoices and documents of Hospital which he sent to the complainant to lure him on one pretext or the other to transfer the money in the bank accounts provided by him.
Further investigation is underway. The staff involved in good work is being suitably rewarded.
