Team Goemkarponn
PANAJI: Even as the Colva police apprehended Delhi resident Tushar Bansal in connection with the Rs 3.86 lakh crime, South Goa Superintendent of Police Sunita Sawant on Friday made a strong appeal to the public not to become victims of cybercrimes.
SP Sawant stated that people should be vigilant in order to thwart the schemes of cybercriminals, even though the Colva police have brought Bansal to Goa after apprehending him in Mumbai. “Be careful when using websites on the internet. “Avoid sharing the OTP in emails,” she said.
According to her, a cybercrime team has been established at the South Goa district police headquarters to support all of the district’s police stations in instances involving cyber fraud. “The local police stations are in charge of investigating cybercrime crimes that involve less than Rs five lakh. Investigations are turned up to the Cybercrime police station in Ribandar when the sum exceeds Rs five lakh, she stated.
Regarding the current case, SP Sawant noted that Dr. Ashley Fernandes had complained to the Colva police that representatives of a courier service company had stolen four tickets he had purchased from the Viagogo website for the Coldplay concert for Rs 3,86,217.84.
However, he claimed that the courier service provider defrauded the complainant of Rs 3,86,217.84 by failing to deliver the same item to him and instead delivering it to accused No. 2, Tushar Bansal, without any verification.
According to SP Sawant, who provided specifics of the investigations, Bansal, a native of North West Delhi, was apprehended by the police using sophisticated monitoring and a team dispatched to Mumbai.
She claimed that Bansal supposedly picked up the tickets, which the delivery service had sent to Navelim rather than Colva. “Our investigations showed that Bansal used to travel by train between Goa and Mumbai to send and pick up the consignment on his own,” she claimed.
