Mumbai Crime: Cyber crooks nabbed at Deoghar and Hazaribagh

The Mumbai police nabbed five cyber criminals from Jharkhand after high drama involving at least one arrest at an accuseds bungalow which was designed to help him escape The accused have been brought to Mumbai for further investigations into four cases registered against them at Cuffe Parade and Marine Drive police stationsThey were arrested from Deoghar and Hazaribagh which are districts adjacent to Indiarsquos cyber crime hub Jamtara in Jharkhand Those arrested from Deoghar include Tinku Kumar Das 22 Uttam Kumar Manjhi 22 and Roshan Kumar Sinha 27 Binay Kumar Mahto 42 and Shatrughna Ravidas 32 were arrested from Hazaribagh Police sources told midday that most of the accused have constructed big bungalows in their villages after cheating people across IndiaScene from a movieThe arrest of Tinku Kumar Das proved to be most dramatic ldquoWhen our officers reached Patahradda in Deoghar to arrest Tinku he tried to run away from his bungalow but our brave officers managed to nab himrdquo said a senior officer attached to Cuffe Parade police stationTinkursquos bungalow has been strategically constructed to escape even if cops reach the door His bungalow is huge with a 7ft high boundary wall and an iron gate The team of Cuffe Parade police scaled the wall and entered the premises When our team peeped into a window they saw Tinku inside but he did not open the gate when they knocked on it said an officerldquoInstead he climbed atop his house to jump off the terrace He has made a sand bed on the ground so that he wont be injured if he jumps off the terrace Our team then surrounded the bungalowrdquo added the officer ldquoThere is also a cowshed adjacent to the bungalow and he had been trying to jump on its asbestos roof but one of our officers reached the terrace by then and nabbed himrdquo added the officerAlso Read Mumbai 18yearold motorcyclist dies after mishap on Bandrarsquos UbridgeSwanky houses bungalowsAfter making a lot of money the cyber criminals have built swanky houses or bungalows with multiple rooms and several doors that allow them to hide easily said one of the officers who went to DeogharAnother officer told midday that semiliterate youth in the area have been spending upto R30000 on training to become cyber criminals The trainer gives them tricks to escape the police such as how to destroy the SIM card how to divert calls to another number to avoid being traced when and where to destroy the handset used etcBrother leads to criminalThe cops also used his brother to arrest Sinha who had been using the banking details of his deceased father and the mobile number of his brother for Know Your Customer KYC to avoid being arrestedldquoAfter tracking down the mobile tower location we arrived at his house in Deoghar but his brother had no idea about his cyber crimes We then took Sinharsquos brother to record his statement to a nearby police station We had also been trying a number of Sinha which his brother recognised They later took him to the location from where Sinha was calling him after tracing it ldquoWe arrested Sinha from his unclersquos houserdquo said the officerThe others were nabbed after a dramatic chase in a village where local cops also provided help said the officer The cops told midday that the youths in most of the houses in Deoghar and Hazaribagh districts sneak into the forest areas to make random calls to their victims as shown in the web series JamtaraAll these cyber criminals have cheated Mumbaikars using different modus operandi like creating panic in their victims by saying that their bank accounts will be suspended if they donrsquot update their PAN card In a case a victim searched for the customer care number of a payment gateway company on a search engine and ended up losing moneyrdquo said the officerldquoAll these cases were registered in 2022 at Marine Drive and Cuffe Parade police stations So our team of officers including Inspector Kiran Chougule PSI Krunal Gholap Constables Balu Pawar Santosh Ghughe and Bhanudas Kamble fromCuffe Parade and PSI Sachin Shelke and Constables Ramesh Raghunath Repal and Mukesh Dadaji Chavan from Marine Drive police station had been sent to Jharkhand to arrest the accusedrdquo said the officer The accused were booked under sections 419 cheating by personation 420 cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property of IPC and 66A 66D of Information Technology Act5No of accused held