Mumbai police have arrested a veteran cyber criminal from the Muffasil police station area on Wednesday with the help of Hazaribagh police. After arresting the accused Hazaribagh police handed over him with his father to the special crime branch team of Mumbai police. The police have recovered 100 ATM cards, 275 pass books of different banks, more than 100 SIM cards of different mobile companies of the country and more than 1000 Aadhar cards from his residence. Interrogation of the mother of the accused is still going on.
SP Hazaribagh Anup Birthare said that a team of two members of Mumbai special branch of the police came to Hazaribagh and briefed the objective of their visit to Hazaribagh. Then we formed a special team of Hazaribagh police officials that started investigating the matter. The team first watched each and every activity of the suspected criminals and on Tuesday night raided their house situated in Nutan Nagar mohallah of Hazaribagh town which comes under Mufassil PS area.
The team has arrested the main accused Sachin Prasad and his father Arjun Prasad. In our investigation it became clear that the father of the criminal was assisting his son in the cyber crime.
His mother Shanti Devi seems to be also involved in this affair so our officials are interrogating her.
Talking about the case SP said that Sachin was in Mumbai for last four to five years. During this period he made friends on Facebook. More than four dozen girls were in his friends list whom he use to black mail. One of these friend committed suicide some days ago due to the continuous mental harassment. When the Mumbai police registered the case and started investigation, they came to know that the main accused belongs to Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand State, who is also involved in many cyber crimes happened in and around Mumbai.
The Mumbai police sent a two member team to Hazaribagh. The team with the help of Hazaribagh police got the success and arrested the main accused.