Cyber Crime Bhopal nabbed a miscreant, who was involved in selling motorbike through OLX website and cheated the victims by escaping with money and cash; police have recovered bike, cash and mobile phone used to contact victim.
The miscreant was nabbed after victim Brijesh Jathav of Shahapura was duped by the accused who was identified as Harpreet Singh by escaping with `65000 cash of victim and motorbike which the victim was scheduled to buy from the accused. A complaint was lodged with the Cyber cell by the victim and in his compliant, he stated that after spotting an advertisement of motorbike on sale for `65000 he contacted the seller who introduced himself as Aman Arora.
The two agreed to meet and victim reached with money, the accused took money and escaped with his bike and victim’s money, unable to understand victim keep waiting for long and tried to contact accuse but found mobile phone to be switched off.
Based on the complaint after the preliminary investigation, the police registered a case under section 419, 420 of the IPC and during the investigation sections 465, 468, 471 and 201 of the IPC were added.
Police said that the accused was nabbed and mobile phone which was used to cheat the victim was recovered.
Later, in the investigation he confessed that he used to cheat victims by creating a fake profile and would dupe them. Other victims who have been duped by the accused would be investigated.