- By Abhishek Sheoran
- Tue, 28 May 2024 08:39 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
Famous YouTuber Bobby Kataria was on Monday arrested by the Gurugram Police in a human trafficking case involving two youths, news agency IANS reported. He has been booked under Section 370 of the IPC and was taken to Bajghera Police Station in Gurugram. Arun Kumar from Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, and Manish Tomar from Hapur, both unemployed, were in contact with Kataria through Instagram.
The complainants informed the police that they saw an advertisement for an overseas job on Bobby's YouTube channel, MBK. Afterwards, they contacted Bobby Kataria via WhatsApp. Bobby then asked them to visit his office in Sector 109 on the pretext of securing them a job abroad.
The victim reached Kataria’s office on 1 February 2024 and paid his Rs 2,000 as a registration fee. Following Bobby Kataria's request, Rs 50,000 was transferred on February 13 to his official account registered under the name MBK Global Visa Private Limited.
Subsequently, on Bobby's instruction, another Rs 1 lakh was transferred on March 14 to the account of a person named Ankit Shaukeen. Kataria then sent the tickets for Vientiane (Laos) via Shaukeen's WhatsApp.
As per Bobby Kataria's instructions, on March 28, Kumar converted Rs 50,000 into USD at the airport and boarded the flight to Vientiane.
Similarly, Bobby took lakhs of rupees from his friend Manish Tomar on the pretext of sending him to Singapore. However, he was also sent to Vientiane.
When the duo landed, they met one Abhi, who described himself as a friend of Bobby Kataria and a Pakistani agent. He dropped them off at the Hotel Mican Son in Vientiane, where they met a young man named Ankit Shaukeen and Nitish Sharma, also known as Rocky. These individuals took the victims to an unidentified Chinese company, where both friends were severely beaten and had their passports confiscated.
They were asked to commit cyber fraud against US citizens. They also received death threats there. "About 150 Indians including women were brought into that company through human trafficking by brokers like Bobby Kataria on the pretext of jobs. Somehow, we escaped from there and reached the Indian Embassy and came back to India and filed a police complaint against Kataria," the complainant told the police, as per IANS.
