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A businessman resident of the same police station area of Rewa remained under digital arrest at his own home for 6 hours. The miscreants kept the young man imprisoned in his own house through video call and got money transferred from his account to their own account. On the second day of the incident, when the young man got wind of the cyber fraud that had happened to him, he reached the police station and lodged a complaint about the matter. This is a case of digital arrest in Rewa.
Nitin Verma, resident of Nehru Nagar, is a businessman by profession. On November 10, at around 8 am, a call came on Nitin’s mobile, in which the caller told Nitin that after 2 hours your mobile service would be completely stopped. For more information we are forwarding your call to customer care. As soon as the call was transferred to customer care, the person sitting on the other side started engaging Nitin in his talks and talked about registering an FIR.
accused of buying drugs
The fake customer care crook told the victim that an FIR has been registered against you in Delhi. An account was opened with your Aadhar card, from which drugs worth Rs 180 crore were purchased. Now all your bank accounts will be checked. Deposit the amount deposited in all the bank accounts you have in our safe custody. Nitin fell into the trap of the thug gang and transferred Rs 99 thousand, Rs 38 thousand and Rs 12 thousand to some account of Bank of Maharashtra.
Businessman remained digitally arrested for 6 hours
After this the victim received a video call and the thug said that he was being investigated. During this time you cannot talk about anything. You remain sitting at one place only. The victim kept getting trapped in the trap of miscreants. From 8 am to 2 pm, the victim remained confined in his own house for 6 hours through video call. The money he had sent in safe custody was also not returned. The next day, when Nitin Verma informed his family about the incident, he realized that he had been cyber cheated. He lodged a complaint about the incident. The police immediately registered the case and started tracking the miscreants. Cyber team has also been activated on the matter.
Online fraud worth lakhs before digital arrest
The miscreants had cheated the businessman on the pretext of online work before arresting him digitally. The cyber thug gang had called the victim Nitin Verma on October 19 and lured him for online work. The accused had sent a link on his WhatsApp number, in which Rs 150 were credited to the victim’s account in exchange for the rating. After this, the thug gang got the online task completed, in which they made the victim deposit Rs 5,000 first. After this, Rs 32 thousand, Rs 50 thousand, Rs 49800 were transferred.
When the victim asked for his money back, the accused asked him to complete the further task. After this, they were asked to deposit Rs 38800 and Rs 4 lakh once again to return the old amount. After this, the victim turned the phone several times to return the money, but the miscreants gave several excuses and switched off his phone. After making him a victim of online fraud, the miscreants arrested the businessman digitally and cheated Rs 10 lakh 73 from the victim.
police statement
SP Vivek Singh said that businessman Nitin Verma has become a victim of fraud in two ways. First, the miscreants cheated him of lakhs of rupees in the name of online work. A few days later, he was digitally arrested and defrauded of lakhs. In this way he was defrauded of approximately Rs 10 lakh 73 thousand. Cyber team is active and investigation is underway, police will reach the thug gang soon.
(Ashok Mishra’s news from Rewa)