Cyber crime cell has nabbed a 29-year-old wanted accused from Odisha who duped a woman to the tune of Rs 5 lakh by creating fake facebook profile.
Using photographs of Itarsi based person accused duped the victim by creating fake facebook profile.
The accused Manoj Singh Nayak alias Manoj Banjara of Uttar Pradesh used photographs of Rakesh Chelani of Itarsi who works as a model and created a fake face book profile and used the profile to become friend with Rakesh’s woman friend.
The accused used to chat with the victim and exchanged mobile numbers and other details and after the accused got assured that the victim has believed him to be Rakesh he told the victim a fake story of been in problem and duped her to the tune of Rs 5 lakh.
Victim in her complaint stated that the accused posing as Rakesh Chelani duped her of Rs 1.56 lakh cash and 120 gm of gold jewelry.
The money was transferred in the bank account while the gold jewelry was handed over to accomplice of the accused.
She stated that the accused asked her of help after collecting money and she provided her gold jewelry weighing 120 gm in Hoshangabad. The accused told the victim that he would ask someone to collect gold jewelry as he is busy and later the victim handed over the gold jewelry to the accomplice sent by accused.
Based on the complaint after the preliminary investigation the police have registered a case under section 419, 420, 500 and 201 of the IPC and section 66 C and 66 D of the IT Act.