Soldier’s relative held for bank account fraud

Accused makes online purchases worth ₹ 3.6 lakh

The relative of a soldier working in Kargil, Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested for making online purchases from his bank account and cheating the latter of ₹ 3.6 lakh. G. Vishnu Prasad, a resident of Uppal, was arrested by sleuths of the Cyber Cell, Rachakonda police, after his offence was found out by the soldier’s wife.

Prasad had taken the amount from the account of B. Kishore Kumar, who is presently posted in Kargil. The latter had shared his bank account details with the accused to get it transferred to Hyderabad. Prasad told officials that he took advantage of Kishore having minimal knowledge of Internet banking, and misused his money.

Another case of Nigerian fraud

Two Nigerians were arrested by the cyber crime officials of Hyderabad police for cheating a man of ₹ 1.5 crore on the pretext of sending him 5.6 million dollars for business investments in India. The accused, Christ Williams and Marshal, contacted the victim Sai Prasad under the guise of representing a US soldier Mercy Francis, who wanted to send five million dollars to India.

The accused told Mr. Prasad that the money was deposited with a Red Cross agent named Williams. They then called him pretending to be Williams, and asked him to deposit money into some bank accounts, stating that Williams had been caught by custom officials at the airport. Like that, they made Mr. Prasad pay ₹ 1.5 crore rupees.

Officials from Hyderabad then set up a meeting between Mr. Prasad and the two accused in New Delhi, on the pretext of giving the latter more money, and apprehended them.

Four held for dealing in ganja

Task Force officials arrested four persons who were in possession of 30 kilograms of Ganja at Kulsumpura on February 28. The accused were identified as J. Ramesh, N. Narender, E. Karunakar and P. Vinod Kumar. Among them, Ramesh was purchasing the banned substance for ₹ 1,500 a kilo and selling the same for about ₹ 6,000. Due to financial difficulties, he took to selling ganja, and asked his cousin Narender and the other two accused to help him.