Cyber thugs have cheated Minister of State Krishna Gaur's son of Rs 3.19 lakh in the name of getting a labor supply contract; the accused has been nabbed by police.

A case of fraud has been reported with the son of Madhya Pradesh minister Krishna Gaur and grandson of former Chief Minister late Babulal Gaur.

In this entire case, Bhopal Cyber Crime Branch has registered a case against unidentified people and started investigation.

According to the police, Krishna Gaur's son Akash Gaur, who lives with her in 74 bungalows in Bhopal, had reported the cyber crime. In this case, the cyber crime team has arrested accused Saif Ali Chaus from Bhopal, who created a fake email and mailed to unhold the bank account.

Saif Ali had created a fake cyber crime mail ID and mailed the bank. When the bank took information from the police in this matter, it was revealed.

The police said that during the investigation of the case, it was revealed that the fraudster used an account of Bank of India to get the money. After the complaint, before the bank account was put on hold, the cheated money was transferred to the account of another cooperative bank. Later, the cyber crime team froze the account after gathering information about the cooperative bank.

Akash Gaur said in his complaint that on March 20, 2024, he received a call for the tender of labor supply in a private company. The caller asked him whether you do the work of labor supply. Akash said that he does contracting. On this, the caller said that he would get the tender for the work. For this, an entry has to be made on the QR code and the work will be allotted.

Akash told the police that the caller introduced himself as RK Yadav and he said that to get the tender, you have to generate the vendor code soon and asked to deposit the prescribed fee for it. Shortly after, the fraudster sent a QR code on his WhatsApp and asked him to deposit the fee.

Akash fell into his trap and as per the instructions of the fraudster, on March 20, 2024, he transferred Rs 3 lakh 19 thousand online from different bank accounts. After this, the fraudster switched off the phone.

Cyber police said that Saif Ali gave commission to accused Rakesh Yadav after transferring the amount to his bank account. After investigation, the account of Bank of India branch in Mumbai and Apna Sahakari Bank was put on hold. Both these accounts are used by Saif Ali Chau. Accused Saif Ali Chau had received a notice sent to Cyber Crime Bhopal from Apna Sahakari Bank.

After this, the accused prepared an ID dspcrimebho@mpgovr.in similar to Cyber Crime Bhopal's email ID dspcrimebho@mp.gov.in. After changing the details of the notice for opening the account, he mailed his cooperative bank email ID to open the account. When the bank got suspicious about the mail ID, Cyber Crime Bhopal was informed. After which Saif Ali was arrested by the police from Bhopal.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Shailendra Singh  said that one accused has been arrested.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Shailendra Singh Chauhan said that Cyber Crime Bhopal has arrested one accused. The accused took the fraud amount of Rs 3.5 lakh in his account and gave it to another accused. A report was made in Cyber Crime a few days ago. In which a Bhopal citizen was cheated of Rs 3.5 lakh in the name of labor contract in Mahindra company. Which was reported in Cyber Crime. We investigated about it.

We closed the account of the Mumbai account holder in whose account the money was transferred. To open the account, the operator of this PUS had sent an email by creating a fake email ID of the Crime Branch. On investigation, this email ID was found to be fake and a case was registered against the accused and he was arrested. This is the first arrest in this case. The process of arresting other accused is underway.