An FIR was registered against unidentified individuals nether Section 318(4) (cheating and dishonestly inducing the transportation of property) of the BNS Act. (Representational image/File)
In yet different lawsuit of an alleged cyber fraud, a nonmigratory of Ludhiana territory was tricked into transferring Rs 4 lakh aft fraudsters claimed that his lad has been arrested successful Canada for causing a fatal accident.
The victim, Bhupinder Singh of Patti Mann village, said that connected October 18, helium received a telephone from an chartless number. The caller posed arsenic a constabulary serviceman from Canada, alleging that his son, Rajinder Singh, presently successful Canada, was arrested for crushing a antheral to death.
The fraudster claimed that Rajinder would look beingness imprisonment unless Bhupinder instantly transferred Rs 4 lakh for bail. The accused provided a slope relationship number, and Bhupinder, fearing for his son’s safety, transferred the magnitude without delay.
After sending the money, Bhupinder contacted his lad to corroborate the situation. To his shock, Rajinder was harmless and unaware of immoderate specified incident. Realising helium had been duped, Bhupinder reported the substance to the police.
An FIR was registered against unidentified individuals nether Section 318(4) (cheating and dishonestly inducing the transportation of property) of the BNS Act