Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 13: Crime Branch Jammu today produced preliminary charge-sheet against notorious cybercriminals, who befriended the complainant on Facebook and duped him by luring on the pretext of entering into some business in India.
The arrested accused, namely Raj Kumar alias Rajan of Trilokpuri, New Delhi and Rajesh Kumar alias Sonu alias Champak alias Anurag Mittal of Trilokpuri, New Delhi have been booked in case FIR number 32/2019 U/S 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, 120-B/RPC 66-D IT Act P/S Crime Branch, Jammu for duping the complainant of Rs 82, 05,883/.
The instant case was registered on a written complaint lodged by the complainant-Javaid Ahmed Zargar, resident of Chirag Colony Bathindi Morh Jammu, who said that one Christina George, purportedly from UK befriended him through Facebook and induced him of entering into some business in India. The complainant was telephonically made to believe that his Facebook friend who was purportedly visiting India with huge money to meet the complainant was intercepted at Delhi International Airport by the Customs Department and all the cash she was carrying was seized. In order to release the said lady and the money the complainant was made to transfer his money to various Bank accounts owned by fraudsters to get ultimately duped.
The investigation conducted has proved that the accused persons are members of a notorious cyber racket operating from New Delhi and various fake bank accounts have been detected to have been opened by said accused persons in which transactions worth crores of rupees have been made by defrauding the gullible people from different parts of the country. The investigation continues to reach the other members of the crime gang and put them to justice under law of the land.
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