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In major breakthrough a Team of Police Station- Cyber Crime arrested 02 more accused in Case FIR No. 126, dated 18.12.2023, U/S 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120 B IPC, PS- Cyber Crime, Chandigarh , under the leadership of Sh. Ketan Bansal, IPS, SP-Cyber, UT, Chandigarh, under close guidance of Sh. A Venkatesh, DSP/Cyber Crime& IT UT, Chandigarh and supervision of Inspector Sh. Ranjit Singh SHO Police Station-Cyber Crime, Sec.17, Chandigarh.

Police said above mentioned case was registered on the complaint of Sh.Birender Singh S/o Lt. Manohar Lal R/o #1369 Kishangarh, IT Park Chandigarh in which the complainant alleged that he is a retired Inspector from Chandigarh Police and on 06.12.2023 he received a WhatsApp call from an unknown number 8918902127 that has a profile photo of Treasury.

The caller posed himself as Treasury Officer and afraid him that his alive certificate had not accepted yet, due to which his pension and other allowances will be stopped. Later on he again received a WhatsApp call from other number 8982898221 who also introduced him from Treasury officer and asked about victim's name, age, date of birth, pension bank etc.

On believing the caller from Treasury, he told the said information to the caller. Later on 11.12.2023 his BSNL Mobile No. 9417937186 services was stopped, for this he reached to BSNL office where it came to light that his mobile number was ported out. Immediate after he rushed to State Bank of India and HDFC Bank where it was found that amount of Rs. 18,81,000/- from HDFC Salary account and Rs. 1,94,000/- from SBI Pension Account withdrawn fraudulently.

INVESTIGATION: After registration of the above case the raiding party has been constituted proceed further into investigation and on the basis of Technical support & secret information, a raid was conducted in Kestopur (WB) from where on 24.01.2024 the accused Soumodeep Sarkar R/o # AB303 Kastopur, Barbari Tala, West Bengal, Age 20 Years and Sita Ram S/o Laxman Rai R/o # AB303 Kastopur, Barbari Tala West Bengal, Age 21 Years were arrested. During further investigation it came to light that fraudulent amount was transferred to the alleged IDFC Bank and this fraudulent amount was used to pay credit cards bill.

On further investigation it has been found that alleged credit cards are being used by Rohit Sharma S/o Ramesh Sharma and Tasim Husain S/o Akbar Husain. On the basis of technical support on 06.03.2024 a raid was conducted at Bankra PO Birati, North 24 Pargana, Kolkata, West Bengal and both accused namely Rohit Sharma S/o Ramesh Sharma and Tasim Hussain S/o Akbar Hussain have been arrested and further investigation is going on.

Modus Operandi of the case: The modus operandi of this case is that they used to call Whatsapp persons and afraid them that they will face problem in getting their pension soon because some documents has not been uploaded in Treasury, so they sent a link after clicking on the link and his mobile phone was hacked and they port complainant mobile number into  different service provider and used that mobile number to withdrawal the amount which different service provider and used that mobile number to withdrawal the amount which  is linked with that number.

Profile of accused:- Rohit Sharma S/o Ramesh Sharma R/o Bankra PO Birati, North 24 Pargana, Kolkata, West Bengal, 6 Years Graduate
2 Tasim Hussain S/o Akbar Hussain R/o Bankra PO Birati, North 24 Pargana, KOLTAKA.

RECOVERY: Credit Cards 03, 2. Mobile phones 02, . SIM 02