Cyber crime is continuously growing in the country. People sitting in one state are being duped of crores of rupees by digitally arresting people in any district of another state and the police just sits idle. Some criminals are caught, but most escape and keep committing crimes. The latest case is from Meerut, where a retired bank employee was duped of about Rs 1 crore 73 lakh by threatening him with money laundering. It is alleged that the old man was digitally arrested for four days.
The whole case of digital arrest fraud is from Civil Lines police station area of Meerut, where elderly Suraj Prakash, who is a retired bank employee, lives in Pandav Nagar. Some people digitally arrested him and defrauded him of Rs 1 crore 73 lakh. In the complaint lodged in the cyber police station, the elderly man said that first a call came on September 17, in which the caller introduced himself as from the telecom department and asked to close all his numbers. The caller told that an account has been opened in Canara Bank using your Aadhaar card, in which Rs 6.80 crore has come from money laundering.
After this, the elderly man received a call on his WhatsApp number, in which the caller informed him about a case being filed against him in Maharashtra. The caller also threatened to send him to jail. The thugs forbade him from leaving the house and talking to anyone. The elderly man alleges that on September 18, Rs 3.80 lakh was transferred from his bank account once and Rs 5 lakh another time. On September 20, Rs 90 lakh was transferred to a bank account.
On September 21, Rs 45 lakhs were transferred to one bank account and Rs 30 lakhs to another bank account. In this way, the old man was cheated of Rs 1 crore 73 lakh 80 thousand in 4 days. When the old man realized that the callers were not government officials but fake people, he informed the cyber police station in Meerut about the incident, but by then it was too late.
Taking action in the case, the cyber police wrote a letter to the bank to seize the bank accounts of the accused. At the same time, the police has also formed two teams to investigate this matter. In this entire case, Meerut SSP Dr. Vipin Tada says that a person came to the cyber police station and informed that a money laundering case has been registered against him in Maharashtra and he was told that to save himself, he will have to transfer the money to the RBI account, which will be returned to him after investigation.
Falling prey to this deception, he transferred the money from his account to their account and when he realized that he had been duped, he went to the cyber police and filed a complaint. The SSP says that nowadays such cases are coming to light in which this type of cyber crime is being committed, in which a person is called and told that he is involved in some crime.
To avoid this, they will have to transfer the money to the given account, so that they can be protected and people become their victims. The SSP said that everyone is requested not to fall prey to such fraud and if any such call comes, then immediately inform the police.
