- By Unzila Sheikh
- Fri, 06 Oct 2023 06:06 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
A 39-year-old Bhubaneswar-based businessman was arrested at the Mumbai airport on September 21, by the Rachakonda cyber crime sleuths for scamming people on the pretext of providing them jobs at a software MNC (multi-national corporation). Reportedly, the accused, identified as Kali Prasad Rath, along with one other, Abhijeet Arun Nekta, was involved in eight cyber crimes in Rachakonda, Hyderabad and Cyberabad.
The incident came to light when a man, Ajay Kumar, lodged a complaint on March 27, about receiving mail from a fraudster who was posing as the representative of a software MNC. The accused offered him a job and asked him to pay Rs 37 lakh.
Initial investigation revealed that Kali Prasad along with Abhijeet Arun Nekta created fake email addresses in the names of big companies to defraud the victims. They also set up bank accounts to procure money. Reportedly, the money was obtained from the victims in the name of onboarding, skill registration, legal documentation and GST charges.
An LOC was issued in the name of Kali Prasad as he was in Dubai and the accused was arrested at the Mumbai Airport on September 21 by the immigration authorities. Kalu was then handed over to the police.
In another incident, a man was arrested, on October 6, by the Lucknow police in Uttar Prades’s Etah for allegedly operating a fake website and using counterfeit birth and death certificates to make false insurance claims under Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Yojana.
The accused, Vedant Kumar, was a resident of Etah. The incident came to light when a man, Veeraj M Joshi, a representative of India First Life Insurance Company alleged that the accused created a fraudulent death certificate and certified it as original from an illegal website.
“A team was formed to arrest the accused. It was found that a fake government website was created by him and hundreds of applications were made for fraudulent claims from IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company under Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima by forging fake death certificates,” the Hindustan Times quoted Triveni Singh, Superintendent of Police (cybercrime), as saying.
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An FIR was registered under sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery) of the India Penal Code, Section 66D of the IT Act and other sections at the cyber cell of Vibhuti Khand police station.
