PRESS NOTE
Special team of Cyber Crime P.S. CCS DD Hyderabad apprehended (3) offenders from Jabalpur and Bhopal of Madhya Pradesh State, who provided their bank accounts to Cyber offenders who resort hacking of bank accounts and cheating gullible public . Police seized Rs.2.70 lakhs and freezed Rs. 1.23 lakhs, account books, debit cards and cell phone from possession of accused persons.
FACTS OF THE CASE:
On 08-12-2015 received a complaint from Sri Abdul Aleem R/o Begumpet, Hyderabad, stating that he is holding A/c. No. 018301075239 at ICICI Bank, Begumpet Branch, Hyderabad. His account was hacked by unknown culprits and fraudulently transferred Rs.2,50,000/-, Rs.2,70,000/-, Rs.2,70,000/- and Rs.11,000/- i.e. total Rs. 7,90,000/- on 3-12-2015 and Rs. 1,000/- & Rs.4886/- into various accounts and withdrawn on 4-12-2015 & 5-12-2015, i.e. total amount of Rs. 8,08,547/-. He requested for taking necessary action.
Basing on the contents of the complaint, a case in Cr.No.345/2015, U/s. 66 (C ) (D) ITA Act, 2008, Sec. 419, 420 IPC was registered at Cyber Crime Police Station, CCS, Detective Department, Hyderabad and being investigated into.
During the course of investigation Cyber Crime Police obtained the details of accounts wherein the amount of Rs. 8.8 lakhs belonging to complainant was fraudulently transferred. An amount of Rs. 2.70 lakhs was transferred into the account No. 019801006225 of ICICI Bank, Jabalpur, pertaining to Sagar Kumar Raidas of Jabalpur and Rs. 2.61 lakhs in account No. 005505009833 of ICICI bank, Bhopal pertaining to Faraz Ahmed Khan of Bhopal. Basing on the SMS alerts mobile numbers of both the accused account holders were obtained. A police team after ascertaining details of the account holders proceeded to Jabalpur and after making strenuous efforts apprehended the accused Sagar Kumar Raidas S/o Shanker Kumar Raidas, age 29 years, R/o Shastri Nagar Katni, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh and his associate Sanjay Patel S/o Late Ramu Patel age 40 yrs N/O Katni, M.P. on 13 -01-2016 at Jabalpur. Likewise apprehended another account holder Faraz Ahmed Khan from Bhopal on 17-01-2016. All the accused persons were brought to Hyderabad on transit warrant.
Details of the arrested persons
Persons arrested at Jabalpur :
1). Sagar Kumar Raidas S/o Shanker kumar Raidas, age 29 years, R/o Shastri Nagar Katni, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh
2. Sanjay Patel S/o Late Ramu Patel age 40 yrs Occ: Servicing Centre R/o Shyam Pershad Mukherjee ward No. 36,Bilganwa, Katni, M.P.
Person arrested at Bhopal :
1) Faraz Ahmed Khan S/O Late Nissar Ahmed Khan age 26 yrs Occ: Business R/O Flat No. 204, Shaheed Nagar, Bhopal.
Particulars of Absconding offenders
Rohit Sharma @ Shailu N/O Katni, Madhya Pradesh
Raja Thakur N/O Jabalpur. Madhya Pradesh
Tomar N/O Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
Rahul Tiwari N/O Varanasi , U.P. (Lodged in Bhopal jail)
Naresh Malvia N/O Bhopal , M.P. (Lodged in Bhopal jail)
David N/O Mumbai
MO. OF THE OFFENDERS
The fraudsters Sagar Kumar Raidas, Faraz Ahmed Khan provided their current and saving accounts along with Cheque books and ATM cards to Rohit Sharma and Rahul Tiwari at Mumbai before the occurrence of offence and waited till hacking of account took place. The Mediators Rohit and Rahul are connected to one Anna and David native of Mumbai. Once they get information about the hacking of account, they immediately encash the amount cheques and transfer into some other accounts which they keep ready with them and ATM withdrawals from Mumbai and Rewa Cities. After getting their share the account holders will return back to their cities and avoid staying at given address to escape their arrest .
The hacker obtain the net banking details of the customer through phishing i.e sending some attractive job offer mails with a Trojan link . Once the customer ( Using net banking) clicks on the link received in the mail , the customer will receive a page asking to furnish the mail id and password for a getting lucrative job. On furnishing the same the hacker easily hacks the account and gets transfer of the money into various accounts all over India with in a very short period and withdraws the money at various Cities with the help account holders and mediators. Efforts are continued to apprehend the absconding accused persons.
The team headed by Inspector of Police Sri.V.P. Tiwari , consisting of team members Constables Ch. Sunil, Ganesh Dubey, D.Raghu and M.A. Kareem under the supervision of ACP Cyber Crimes Sri.S.M.K.Ismail did good work in locating and apprehending the accused persons.
Joint Commissioner of Police
Detective Department, CCS,
Hyderabad
