Cyber Crime Bhopal nabbed a miscreant, who was involved in purchasing goods through OlX website by creating fake profile and cheated the victims by providing cheque of bank account with zero balance.
The miscreant was nabbed after one of the victims Himanshu Verma of Subhash Colony was duped by the accused who was identified as Abhisek Shrivastava by providing cheque of bank account with nil balance and when the victim presented the cheque it got dishonoured.
A complaint was lodged with the Cyber cell by the victim and in his compliant, he stated that he posted add for selling lED, TV, DVD player and home theater system on OlX and after some time he received a message from an user Aradhan Shukla that she is interested in buying the goods but as they are government employee they would make payment through cheque and her husband Abhisek would collect the goods and make payment through cheque and provided mobile number of her husband. later Abhisek came and took the goods after providing the cheque and it got bounced when presented and when the victim contacted the accused he resorted to excuses and later switched off his mobile phone.
Based on the complaint after the preliminary investigation, the police registered a case under section 419, 420 of the IPC and 66 D of the IT act and during the investigation details of bank account cheque book, OlX account and mobile numbers used in the fraud were searched.
Police said that the accused was nabbed from New Market area and when he was quizzed he confessed fraud with Himanshu. later in the investigation he confessed that he used to cheat victims by creating a fake profile over OlX in the name of Aradhana Shukla.