Stock market influencer, in Gujarat to attend Coldplay concert, ‘abducted, forced to give up social media account access’

The FIR lodged astatine Karjan constabulary presumption by Shrivastav alleges that the 5 unidentified accused accosted him portion the traveller autobus was stationary astatine a road edifice connected NH48 successful Karjan and identified themselves arsenic “personnel” from the “cyber transgression branch”. The accused allegedly told the complainant that helium was needed for questioning successful a lawsuit pertaining to the “suicide” of a stock market investor, who had “suffered losses of Rs 1 crore” owed to the complainant.

“The accused told the complainant to measurement down from the autobus and travel them successful a conveyance parked adjacent the bus… The complainant complied but connected the mode successful the vehicle, the accused demanded the one-time password of the societal media accounts operated by Shrivastav, who is simply a fiscal influencer. When helium stated that the OTP could beryllium received connected a telephone helium had near down astatine his location successful Vidisha, the accused allegedly assaulted him and forced him to question the passwords from his brother,” the FIR states.

According to the FIR, the accused gained introduction into Shrivastav’s societal media accounts that person banal marketplace clients and “usurped access” by associating “their ain sim cards” with the societal media accounts utilized for banal influencing.

Vadodara territory Superintendent of Police Rohan Anand told The Indian Express that the section constabulary had identified the conveyance successful which Shriavastav had been allegedly abducted. “We person begun a hunt and identified the vehicle. We are looking for the accused, based connected the statement shared by the complainant,” Anand said.

The accused person been booked nether Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita sections 62 (attempting to perpetrate offences punishable with imprisonment for life), 351(2) (criminal intimidation), 3(5) (criminal enactment done successful furtherance to communal intention), and 204 (personating a nationalist servant), arsenic good arsenic the sections of The Information Technology Act.