Amazon fake returns’ scam: Karnataka HC refuses to quash case against duo accused of Rs 69 lakh fraud

After an enforcement of Amazon Logistics and Amazon Transportation Services filed a ailment against the duo, the Hennur constabulary successful Bengaluru successful 2017 lodged a cheating lawsuit and subsequently filed a chargesheet against them.

While Bose and Ghosh filed a plea to quash the case, the precocious tribunal dismissed it connected the grounds that the rival contentions indispensable spell done a proceedings for adjudication. “The lawsuit astatine manus is shrouded with earnestly disputed questions of information and immoderate specified earnestly disputed questions of information tin beryllium thrashed retired lone successful a full-blown trial. This tribunal would beryllium loath to interfere with specified facts which necessitate a full-blown trial,” the precocious tribunal said successful a November 22 bid released connected Friday.

“The apex tribunal holds that erstwhile the lawsuit is shrouded with earnestly disputed questions of fact, the precocious tribunal should not interfere. The questions of information are truthful earnestly disputed successful the lawsuit astatine hand; they are a maze and it would amaze this tribunal to interfere connected specified facts,” the precocious tribunal said successful its order.

With “the advent of the net and its tremendous advancement, the satellite contiguous is unipolar. Crimes and its committee person go ingenious, peculiarly successful the integer property of today. There is immense proliferation successful cyber crimes and online frauds successful particular. It is developed to an alarming rate, leaving the victims successful their wake,” the precocious tribunal observed.

“The modus operandi, successful these caller property crimes, person wholly changed the accepted acts of robbery and dacoity. Though they inactive exist, integer crimes person overshadowed accepted crimes. The consequences of specified crimes are beyond boundaries. It is, therefore, they are modern property crimes,” the precocious tribunal said.

The Amazon fake returns’ scam case

From December 1, 2016, to April 21, 2017, Sourish Bose and Deepanvita Ghosh allegedly carried retired 104 dubious transactions wherever they returned items bought done Amazon and eBay by claiming the products were defective. In reality, they allegedly kept the archetypal product, returned the cheaper ones and pocketed the refunds. “This resulted successful a immense nonaccomplishment to Amazon successful a sum of ₹69,91,940,” the precocious tribunal was told.

The counsel for Amazon told the tribunal that Bose utilized to spot an bid to beryllium delivered to Ghosh and a woman successful eBay, who was a comparative of Bose, processed the orders.

“The infinitesimal it is delivered, accused No.2 initiates C-return. While C-return is initiated, the merchandise successful the container is changed. C-return is taken backmost which is routed done eBay,” the tribunal was informed. The accused would summation arsenic they would person the archetypal merchandise with them and the wealth received arsenic refund, the precocious tribunal was told by Amazon.