Cyber crime police have arrested two persons from Sehore who demanded Rs 1.11 crore from the owner of LBS hospital by spoofing in the name of Chief Minister, accused introduced as the staff of the CM office.
The accused made a call to the doctor through call spoofing and said - ED's raid is going to happen, give the money and the raid would be evaded.
The accused called Dr. Bhupendra Srivastava, the owner of LBS Hospital in Bhopal and he was surprised that the numbers of CM House and CM Office were also displayed on his mobile. The hospital owner was surprised to see this when they informed the police, both the accused who made the call were arrested.
The Cyber Crime Branch of Bhopal Police has arrested Alam Singh Parmar and Devnarayan Raghuvanshi of Sehore in this case. During interrogation, the accused told that they learned call number spoofing from YouTube, as well as saw the method of fraud by Sukesh Chandrasekhar, boyfriend of actress Jacqueline Fernandes.
After this, they started calling from the numbers of CM House and CM Office, threatening to raid the hospital. They used servers of many countries like China, UK and US to make fake calls.
Threatened the doctor by calling him the staff of the CM office. In the police interrogation, the accused said that they made a call to Dr. Bhupendra Srivastava by calling themselves the staff of the CM's office. Said- CM sir has directed that an ED raid is going to happen at your place and called to inform this. Meeting will be arranged with the director of ED and for this Rs 1.11 crore has to be given to the BJP organization as a donation.
When the police investigated, it was clear that calls were not made to the doctor from the CM's office and house and 4 teams were formed for investigation. It was learned that the accused threatened the doctor by spoofing the call number. By tracing the number, the police arrested both the accused.