Indore (Madhya Pradesh): City crime branch arrested four more men in connection with duping a woman of Rs 1.6 crore after digitally arresting her, police said on Tuesday. These accused were arrested from Sehore and Bhopal.
So far, 11 accused have been arrested in the case and are being questioned to gather information about the prime accused of the online fraud gang. DCP (crime) Rajesh Tripathi informed media persons that a special team of crime branch has been constituted for the arrest of the accused ivnovled in duping people by placing them under digital arrest in the city.
Acting on a tip-off, the team arrested Rohan Shakya, AyshRathore, the residents of Sehore, NileshGorele and AbhishekTripathi of Bhopal in connection with the case. During the interrogation, Rohan allegedly informed the crime branch officers that he is a furniture trader in Sehore.
He had opened a bank account in a nationalised bank and had provided the same to Ayush to earn commission to use the bank account. Ayush had provided the bank account to Nilesh and it was later forwarded to Abhishek, who provided the same to other gang members in other states to receive money from online frauds.
So far the accused have confessed to providing the bank accounts to the ‘Digital Arrest’ gang and they are being questioned to know the details of other accused. A 59-year-old woman was contacted by the gang members, who posed themselves as CBI, RBI and police officers a few days ago. The accused had threatened the woman that her bank account was used in a case of money laundering.
They had received Rs 1.6 crore from bank account, FD and shares of the woman on the pretext of investigation into the case by holding her digitally arrested on video calls. A case under section 318 (4), 308 (2), 316 (5), 111 (4), 3 (5) of BNS was registered for the crime.
