Pune man loses Rs 77.74 lakh in gold mining, forex trading scam
Pune: A 52-year-old man was defrauded of ₹77.74 lakh after falling for a scam promising high returns on investments in gold mining and forex trading. The fraud came to light after he approached the Pune cyber crime police, who registered a case last week.
According to the complaint, the victim received a call on August 20 last year from an unidentified woman who introduced him to the scheme, stating that he could start investing with ₹50,000. Days later, he was sent a web link and asked to register using his personal and bank details. Upon registration, an investment account was created on a trading portal.
On August 28, he invested ₹50,000 and saw the amount converted into dollars, which he could track on the platform. Believing it to be legitimate, he continued investing, making 51 transactions over four months and transferring ₹77.74 lakh to various bank accounts on the scammers’ instructions.
The victim later found that his trading account reflected an increased amount of ₹2.57 crore. Initially, he was able to withdraw ₹25,200, but from December 21, his withdrawal requests were denied. When he questioned the scammers, they demanded ₹26 lakh as a "risk security deposit" under the pretext of securing funds from money laundering and illegal activities.
Realising he had been cheated, the man filed a complaint with the Pune cyber crime police. A case has been registered under s. 318 (cheating) and s. 319 (cheating by personation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with s. 66D (cheating by personation using a computer resource) of the Information Technology Act.
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UP man gets life term for electrocuting mentally challenged wife to death in Bareilly
Bareilly (UP) (PTI): A local court here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering his mentally challenged wife by repeatedly electrocuting her while she was tied to a cot, lawyers said on Thursday.
Additional district government counsel Harendra Singh Rathore said Additional Sessions Judge Avinash Kumar Singh on Wednesday convicted Vinod Kumar (45) for killing his wife, Satyavati, in Chaina village of Bareilly district and imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on him.
According to the prosecution, he was allegedly frustrated with his wife Satyavati's mental illness and often assaulted her.
Rathore said the prosecution examined nine witnesses to establish the charges against him.
As per court records, on the night of May 1-2, 2022, when Satyavati was asleep, Vinod tied her hands and legs to a cot using ropes and then connected an aluminium cable to an electric board to repeatedly administer electric shocks to her.
"She writhed in pain, but the accused continued to electrocute her until she died," the prosecution said.
The court observed that the murder was carried out in an inhuman manner.
After committing the crime, the accused threw the rope and cable on the roof and left for work at a brick kiln around 2 am to create a false alibi.
He later tried to mislead the police and the victim's family by claiming that Satyavati, whose mental condition was unstable, had accidentally died by suicide after grabbing a live electric wire.
However, the victim's brother, Sanjeev, a resident of Shahjahanpur district, suspected foul play and lodged an FIR under sections 498A (husband subjecting wife to cruelty) and 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code at Nawabganj police station.
During the trial, the prosecution relied on the post-mortem report prepared by Dr Faraz Anwar, who stated that multiple electrocution marks found on different parts of the victim's body could not have been self-inflicted.
The police also recovered the rope and electric wire used in the crime on the accused's identification, officials said.
