The City Civil and Sessions Court recently rejected bail to Sujit Ojha (25) from Mendipur in West Bengal who misused debit and credit cards to purchase 68 Indian Premier League (IPL) tickets worth ₹2,35,027 from the Royal Bank of Canada.
The manager at BookMyShow alleged that on March 24, a group of people misappropriated debit and credit cards to purchase the tickets for the April 15 match between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore.
A complaint was filed with the Cyber police and it led to the arrest of a few bookies. The Cyber police said that Mr. Ojha and two others were involved in the crime. Mr. Ojha was the prime suspect because he had booked the tickets. He was charged under Sections 419 (punishment for cheating by personation), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 465 (punishment for forgery), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record) of the Indian Penal Code and sections of the Information Technology Act.
After the magistrate court rejected his bail, Mr. Ojha had moved the sessions court on the grounds that he was innocent and falsely implicated in the crime. Additional Sessions Judge D.S. Deshmukh said it was clear Mr. Ojha was the prime accused.
While rejecting his bail, the court said, “Mr. Ojha has knowledge of entire internet activities and if he is released on bail he will destroy the evidence.”
