Cases of cyber fraud in Indore are not taking the name of stopping. Here a miscreant placed a woman digital arrest for 4 days and cheated 1 crore 60 lakhs. The Indore police has freeze more than 100 accounts in this case. However, the Crime Branch has arrested the 17th accused in the case of digital arrest with the woman in Indore.
Four days Digital Arrest: Explain that the criminals kept the woman digitally hostage for four days. The thugs called themselves different officers and interacted with him and carried out a fraud of Rs 1 crore 60 lakh. In this case, the Crime Branch has so far freezed 100 bank accounts.
What did the crime branch say: DCP Crime Branch Rajesh Tripathi said that Vandana Gupta (59), who hails from Indore from 9 November 2024 to 12 November 2024, was digitally arrested. The woman was cheated by being intimidated, as a fake officer, Rs 1 crore 60 lakh. So far 17 accused have been arrested. The accused have been arrested from other places including Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal.
During interrogation of Abhishek Chakraborty, it was found that he takes an account at the behest of a person named Swapan Modak. The search was started when his name surfaced. The team reached Cooch Behar to catch him, from where Swapan was arrested. Now the accused will be questioned with police remand. In the initial interrogation, he has admitted that he has transacted the account.
How much commission to the accused: DCP Tripathi said that in the account that it had taken, a transaction of 60 lakh rupees was done in an account with West Bengal. These were 60 lakh rupees, they were of the incident of Indore, but it had more than 1 crore 90 lakhs in its account, which was the money of other incidents. Abhishek was also looking for Daman Diu’s police. The police there will also be contacted. Swapan will be questioned by police remand. Accounts have been made freezing for recovery. Efforts are being made to arrest all the accused.
Who is dream modak: During interrogation, it has been found that in the past, Swapan Modak used to do private jobs and is educated till 12th. He used to contact people in the name of getting loans and prepared them to give them a bank account by luring them. The bank used to arrange the flight tickets, hotels etc. of the account holder to send the bank account to another state. The accused used to get commission 1 to 2 percent, ie 1 lakh rupees on transactions of 1 crore. The accused has also confessed to including many people in the gang. In this case, 17 mobile phones, 12 passbooks, 8 ATM cards, 12 SIM cards, 7 account opening forms have been seized from the Crime Branch accused.
Edited By: Navin Rangiyal