Operation Chakra-V: CBI nabs four ‘kingpins’ in ‘Digital Arrests’ case

In the fraud of ‘Digital Judgment’, criminals make telephone/video calls to possible objectives, which are passed through officials from various agencies for the application of the law and regulators such as the Bank of the Reserve of India. | Photo credit: Getty images

The CBI arrested four people, two from Mumbai and Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh), for their alleged participation in ‘digital judgments’ fraud.

The trial, made as part of ‘Operation Chakra V’, followed searches in 12 locations.

The CBI has registered multiple cases of ‘digital judges’. The agency on the instantaneous case at the request of the Rajasthan government. It was previously registered by the Cyber ​​Police (Jhunjhunu).

As claimed, the victim was “digitally arrested” for more than three months by cybercriminals that are passed through personnel or agencies for the application of the varial law. Duration This period, the victim was extorted 42 times, totaling ₹ 7.67 million rupees.

After Teteken on the case, the CBI analyzed the data and available profiles of the suspects. Advanced research techniques were used to identify perpetrators. Based on the findings, the agency recently conducted extensive searches in 12 locations in Moradabad and Sambhal in UP, Mumbai, Jaipur and Krishnanagar in Western Bengal, which led to the arrest of four people.

“A substantial material of the duration thesis was seized, including the details of the bank account, the Deit cards, the checks, the slides of deposits and the devices/ digital tests. The arrested persons were produced before the competent court and the AC.

In his “Mann Ki Baat” speech last October, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned people against ‘digital judgment’ fraud that promised to cheat the victims of their money won with so much effort and asked them to inform such cases to the cybernetic aid line.

In this scam, the scammers make telephone/video calls to the possible objectives, which are made by officials of various agencies of application of the law and regulators such as the Bank of the Reserve of India.

At first, they collect the personal information of possible victims, the second movement is to create an atmosphere of fear by presenting in the uniforms of the research agency with a government office as a history and citing legal provisions. The criminals exert psychological pressure on the victims by affirming that they have a leg “digitally arrested” for some crime and issue money from them for “freeing them” for their “custody.”