Goemkarponn Desk
PANAJI: One person from Jharkhand has been arrested by the Goa Cyber Crime Cell for cheating students of money on the pretext of offering admission to a reputed medical college in Karnataka’s Bengaluru district.
The accused has been identified as Ashutosh Kumar.
A complaint was received at PS Cyber Crime Cell had alleged that the complainant on the pretext of offering admission to a reputed medical college in Bangalore had been cheated of Rs 10 Lakhs.
The complainant had received an email purportedly from the medical college confirming the admission into the college, for which he was told to pay Rs 10 lakh as advance fees.
Fearing he would lose admission the complainant paid the money online to a bank account.
Immediately upon the receipt of the complaint, investigation was taken up to identify the cheaters. Several layers of technical data was analysed to identify the real beneficiaries behind the fake bank accounts given as bank accounts of the college.
A team of cyber crime cell supervised by PI Prashal and led by PSI Sarvesh Sawant was sent to Gaya and Dhanbad to track the accused. With the assistance of police from Jharkhand and Bihar the accused was finally apprehended.
Upon interrogation the accused stated that he would make fake KYC documents to open bank accounts and then lure vulnerable people looking for admissions into paying money after promising them admission. Once the persons reported to college for admission that is when they realised they had been cheated.
