The Delhi Police has arrested a 31-year-old man for allegedly duping Sanjaya Baru, a political commentator and policy analyst of Rs 24,000 on the pretext of online delivery of liquor. The accused —Akib Javed, a resident of Kaman, Bharatpur, was nabbed from his native place after a raid on Saturday. He used to work as taxi driver earlier but indulged in cyber crime to make easy money, police said, adding efforts are being made to nab his associates who are absconding.
According to Atul Kumar Thakur, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), South district, the matter came to notice on June 2, after they received a complaint from Baru. “In his complaint, he alleged that while he was searching for a shop online to purchase liquor, he found an online liquor shop in the name “La Cave Wines and Spirits”. When he contacted on the given number to place the order, he was asked to pay online,” said the DCP.
“After making a payment of approximately Rs 24,000, the alleged person switched off his mobile phone. A case was registered at Hauz Khas police station under section 420 (Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) of the Indian Penal Code and an investigation was taken up, said the DCP. “During preliminary investigation, the bank statements, flow of cheated money and call details of the alleged mobile numbers were done and that they were obtained on the basis of fake KYC details,” said the DCP.
“After analysing transactions details, various mobile numbers used to avail banking alerts, accused was traced to Kaman, Baharatpur area. To mislead investigators, accused took SIM cards and bank accounts registered at different States like Assam, Maharashtra, Punjab and Rajasthan,” the DCP said.
“The analysis of technical evidence also revealed that the cheated amount was transferred to a PNB account in the name of Akib. During interrogation, the accused disclosed that his associates used to obtain SIM cards in fictitious names and fake addresses of different state to call their targets,” said the DCP.
“After obtaining the money, within 5-10 minutes, they diverted the cheated amount in three-four bank accounts of different states’ fake beneficiary accounts and later, they diverted the cheated amount to their respective accounts,” said the DCP.
