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The complainant, Harjinder Singh Chahal, a retired IAS officer, had lodged a ailment with Amritsar Commissioner of Police connected September 6 stating that helium received a telephone connected September 3 and September 4 from purported Mumbai Cyber Crime. (Representational photo)
Cyber scamsters person targeted a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) serviceman and duped him of Rs 76 lakh by ‘digitally arresting’ him. The State Cyber Crime Cell has registered a case. The culprits are not identified yet.
The culprits had called the complainant by posing arsenic officials of Mumbai Crime Branch and past asked him to deposit wealth successful immoderate slope accounts.
The complainant, Harjinder Singh Chahal, a retired IAS officer, had lodged a ailment with Amritsar Commissioner of Police connected September 6 stating that helium received a telephone connected September 3 and September 4 from purported Mumbai Cyber Crime.
The complainant stated that the caller told him that helium was conniving with a transgression who is indulging successful wealth laundering.
“He told maine that a subpoena had been issued connected my sanction by the Bombay High court. He promised to assistance maine wide from the lawsuit if I did everything the mode they would instruct me. I was truthful hypnotised by the caller that I started pursuing his instructions. He gave maine addresses of antithetic banks and asked maine to deposit antithetic amounts successful the said banks to assistance him verify my accounts successful the banks and wide maine of the charges aft verification of my currency successful the banks,” the complainant alleged.
He stated that helium deposited antithetic amounts lying successful his 3 slope accounts 1 by 1 arsenic instructed by the caller. The full magnitude of fraud had travel to Rs 76 lakh.
The complainant stated, “I person frankincense fallen unfortunate of a fraud. A ailment has already been registered successful the Cyber Crime Branch of your office. Now I implore you to kindly assistance maine retrieve my hard-earned wealth by taking idiosyncratic involvement successful the lawsuit truthful arsenic to prevention maine from this predicament.”
The ailment urged registration of an FIR. Acting connected the complaint, the State Cyber Cell successful Phase IV registered an FIR nether sections 308(2) (extortion), 318(4) (cheating), 319(2) (cheating by personation), 61(2) (criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) and sections 66-C and 66-D of the Information Technology (IT) Act against chartless users/operators of alleged slope accounts, WhatsApp relationship fig and mobile numbers.
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