By pretending to be anti-drug cell officers, a group deceived a woman out of roughly 25 lakhs. The PCPC Cyber Cell of the Pimpri Chinchwad Police Commissionerate has caught them.
A group that fooled a woman out of approximately 25 lakhs by posing as anti-narcotics cell officers has been apprehended by the PCPC Cyber Cell of the Pimpri Chinchwad Police Commissionerate. False claims were made by the group that narcotics and drugs were found in a package that was delivered to a foreign nation under her name. They withdrew money from her bank account and threatened to jail her.
The Cyber Cell has taken four accused persons from Surat, Jalgaon, and Ahmednagar into custody. Swaroop Ashok Khambekar (42, of Kopargaon, Ahmednagar), Pushkar Chandrakant Pakhale (of Chalisgaon, Jalgaon), Monik Bharatbhai Rangolia (of Surat), and Kausik Mansukhbhai Borad (of Surat) are the people who have been arrested.
A Hinjawadi woman first brought the situation to the attention of the Hinjawadi Police Station. After taking charge of the investigation, the Cyber Cell made the arrests. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime), Sandeep Doiphode, stated that one of the offenders called a Hinjawadi woman claiming to be from FedEx Corp. The caller told her there was a package sent.
It was seized by customs and included five credit cards, five expired Iranian passports, drugs, and narcotics. That’s when the caller started threatening her. The complainant claimed fearfully that she had not sent any packages. The caller then said they would forward the call to the Mumbai Police’s anti-narcotics cell. She was told by another accused—posing as a member of the Anti-Narcotics Cell—that her bank account was being used for drug trafficking and money laundering, and he threatened to have her arrested.
In order to confirm her bank account, the impostor asked her to submit the details of her account. sought support from the cops. By means of this trick, they acquired the information for two of her bank accounts. They stepped away from these accounts. 24,99,998. The woman quickly became aware of the fraud and reported the occurrence right away to the Hinjawadi police station.
The PCPC’s Cyber Cell took up the case and got to work on its investigation. They discovered that the money went to a man from Kopargaon, Ahmednagar, after tracking the monies that were transferred from the complainant’s account. Officials from the Cyber Cell went there and took Khambekar into custody. Khambekar acknowledged under questioning that he and his partners had conspired to carry out this act in order to obtain financial advantage.
After obtaining the other suspects’ details, the police detained Pakhale, Rangolia, and Borad from Jalgaon and Surat. All of the defendants admitted to taking part in the crime when questioned. Under BNS Sections 336, 340 (forging documents or electronic records and passing them off as authentic), 318 (cheating), and 316 (criminal breach of trust), along with the pertinent provisions of the Technology Act of 2000, a case has been filed against the accused. Details 2 crore through the SBI account; 68 cases across the country
The accused transferred money from the Hinjawadi woman’s account to theirs using a State Bank of India account. Investigations into this account revealed transactions in excess of 2 crore, leading to the filing of 68 complaints against the bank across the country. The PCPC Cyber Cell has apprehended 50 people from throughout the nation in the last five months and solved 24 offenses. The Cyber Cell has advised people to avoid answering these kinds of calls. They should visit the closest police station to confirm the facts if they receive such calls, and they should never divulge personal information. Under the direction of Pimpri Chinchwad Commissioner of Police Vinoy Kumar Choubey and Joint Commissioner of Police Dr. Shashikant Mahavarkar, this operation was carried out.
Under the direction of Senior Police Inspector Anil Devde, the team comprised Police Constables Deepak Bhosale, Atul Lokhande, Nitesh Bichewar, Saurabh Ghate, Shrikant Kabule, and Swapnil Khanase from the PCPC Cyber Cell, Assistant Police Inspector Pravin Swami, and Police Sub-Inspector Sagar Poman.
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