Bengaluru: Journalist duped of Rs 55 lakh in job scam, five booked
Bengaluru: A 49-year-old journalist and author from Bengaluru was cheated of Rs 55 lakh over a period of 73 days by fraudsters who posed as recruiters offering lucrative job opportunities.
The cyber crime police have registered a case and are investigating the matter, according to a report by The Indian Express. The victim, a resident of Kasavanahalli, stated in his complaint that he had initially registered on Naukri.com, following which he received a call advising him to also sign up on the Indeed job portal. Believing it to be a legitimate process, he followed the instructions.
The fraudsters used spoofed mobile numbers and deceptive email IDs, including indeed1008@ybl.com, punkajs.indeed@gmail.com, and hr@indeedglobe.com, to convince the complainant of the authenticity of the process, the First Information Report (FIR) revealed, according to TIE. They also shared fake job IDs and designations, falsely claiming to represent reputed companies like Amazon.
Over the next two and a half months, the journalist transferred the amount to various bank accounts, believing he was paying for registration, processing fees, and Goods and Services Tax linked to the job offer. When no offer materialised and communication stopped, he realised he had been defrauded.
Based on the complaint, police have booked five suspects—Pankaj Singh, Karthick, Abhinav Arora, Ram Gopal Meena, and Bidappa—who are believed to be operating from Delhi and Haryana, added the report.
The case has been registered under Sections 66(c) (identity theft) and 66(d) (cheating by personation using a computer resource) of the Information Technology Act, along with Sections 318(4) (cheating) and 319(2) (cheating by personation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
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One person taken into custody after woman found dead in Himachal forest
Nahan (HP) (PTI): A suspect has been taken into custody after a woman's partially burnt body was found in a forest near a police battalion camp in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmour district, police said.
The body of the woman, who is stated to be in her late 30s, was spotted in the dense forest of the Karaunde Wali Ghati area near Dhaula Kuan by locals on Wednesday morning. The identity of the deceased has not yet been established.
The accused in the case was taken into custody at Bata Bridge in Paonta Sahib on Wednesday evening following scanning of the CCTV footage of the area coupled with inputs from Haryana Police, police said.
According to police, the accused is a resident of Barara town in Ambala district of Haryana. A case of kidnapping has already been registered against him in Ambala.
Sirmour District Superintendent of Police Nischint Singh Negi said one person has been taken into custody following contact with Haryana Police.
Postmortem examination of the woman is scheduled to be conducted on Thursday at the Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar Government Medical College at Nahan.
Police are currently investigating whether the woman was murdered in Barara itself, and if her body was subsequently dumped in the Paonta forest and set on fire.
