Sandeep Shukla – Gwalior
- Police arrested two members of the gang who cheated 38 lakhs by digital house arrest on video call from Bhopal.
- The amount of fraud was being sent further to their associates in UAE and China through USDT by the arrested accused.
- On seeing the transactions of the mobile of the arrested accused Laiq Beg, it has been found that he was converting crores of rupees into USDT and sending it to his other associates in India and abroad (UAE, China).
Applicant Dr. Sujata Bapat submitted a complaint application to Superintendent of Police Gwalior Shri Dharmveer Singh (Bapuse) that, on 09.04.2024, she received a call from a person named Rajiv Gupta and he said that he was talking to DHL. One of your parcels has been booked from Lucknow to Myanmar, which contains 20 passports, three credit cards, a laptop, 50 grams of MDMA and 04 kg of cloth. The booking address is A-16 Omnagar Road Pawanpuri Alambagh Lucknow. The receiver’s address is John David Resident House No. 207 City Dagan State Yangon Myanmar. I refused to tell him that it was not my parcel, then he said that there was something wrong, and I should immediately complain to Alambagh Police Station. I said that I was in Gwalior, and then he said that I would connect your call to the police station. So he said that you use Telegram, I said no, on he asked me to download Telegram, from which I downloaded Telegram and started it. Then a video call came on Telegram, in that video a person in a police uniform was seen in a room like a police station in which a flag related to police, was written like police, then he said your case is with the CBI. Your name Ajay Mishra is a suspect in the case of human trafficking and money laundering, I will make you talk to a CBI officer. He told someone to talk to Madam Sir, and then that person said to arrest Madam, there is an arrest warrant and asset seizure order against her. The policeman said that Madam’s Aadhaar and other information show that she is innocent. He then again made me talk to the CBI officer. The CBI officer told me that in Myanmar, the eyes, nose and ears of 60 people involved in human trafficking have been removed and Rs 3 crore 80 lakh of their families has come into your HDFC account. I said that my account was not in HDFC Bank. He asked where I have accounts, on I gave him the information about my bank accounts. Then he said that you would not talk about this to any member of your family nor would you receive anyone’s call. He also sent me a confidential agreement letter. According to the people I was talking to on the phone, Rs 38 lakh had been transferred to the bank accounts mentioned by them. But when I asked for my money back and they did not return it, then I came to know that I had been cheated. Taking the applicant’s complaint seriously, Superintendent of Police Gwalior directed Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime) Mr. Shiaz K.M. (BPSC) to take action on the applicant’s complaint and asked the Cyber Crime Team to take immediate action on the said complaint.
In compliance with the instructions of senior officers, under the guidance of ASP Crime Mr. Ayush Gupta (BPSC) and DSP Crime Mr. Nagendra Singh Sikarwar, Police Station Incharge Mr. Ajay Singh Panwar and Inspector Mr. Rajesh Tomar ordered the Cyber Crime Team to take immediate action on the said application. On the applicant’s complaint, the Cyber Crime Team registered Crime No. 037/2024 under Section 420 IPC 66D IT Act and took it into investigation. During the investigation, it was found that the amount of fraud from the two accounts in which the unknown accused had transferred Rs 38 lakh to the applicant Dr. Sujata Wapat by threatening her with arrest, has been transferred to many different bank accounts. Based on technical information, one of these accounts was identified in which the money was received and that account was found to be from Bhopal. A team was sent to Bhopal under the leadership of Inspector Rajesh Singh Tomar to arrest the account holder. Accused account holder Shahrukh Khan son of Asif Khan resident of Ashbagh Bhopal and his partner Laiq Beg son of Nafees Beg resident of Budhwara Bhopal were arrested. When both the accused were questioned and their mobile phones were checked, it was found that accused Laiq Beg was involved in such cyber fraud along with his Chinese and UAE associates, these fraudsters are operating from China and UAE. These people are sending the fraud amount to their associates in UAE and China through USDT. Other associates of the said accused are being searched. The accused are being questioned as to how many people have been cheated by them so far. After checking the transactions from Laiq Beg’s mobile, it was found that he was converting crores of rupees into USDT and sending it to his other associates in India and abroad (UAE, China). The police team is questioning the arrested accused in detail.
Arrested accused:-
- Shahrukh Khan son of Asif Khan resident of Aishbagh Bhopal
- Laiq Beg son of Nafees Beg resident of Budhwara Bhopal
Information for the general public:
There is no provision for digital house arrest in the law. If you receive any such call in which a person claiming to be a police officer puts you under digital house arrest by claiming that some illegal activity is being done on your parcel or documents, then complain about it in your concerned police station.
Commendable role:
Police station in-charge Crime Branch Gwalior Shri Ajay Pawar, Inspector Rajesh Tomar, Inspector Dharmendra Sharma, Harendra Singh Rajput, Kirti Ajmeria, Ravi Singh Lodhi, Prar Sunil Sharma, Prar Satendra Kushwah, Prar Mukesh Chauhan, Surendra Singh, R Omshankar Soni, Shivshankar Sharma, Sumit Bhadoria, Shyamu Mishra, Gaurav Bhadoria, Naveen Parashar, Hariom Vyas, MR Sunita Kushwaha, Megha Srivastava, Prar Sanjay Jadoun, R Kapil played a commendable role.
