Apr 01, 2025 07:16 PM IST
Two males extorted ₹10 lakhs from a 71-year-old girl in Mumbai by posing as a cop and lawyer on WhatsApp, resulting in their arrest after two months.
MUMBAI: Two males allegedly extorted ₹10 lakhs from a 71-year-old girl by posing as a cop and lawyer on WhatsApp, and inserting her below ‘digital arrest’ for being part of a cash laundering case. After two months of looking, the Kandivali Police on Monday arrested the 2 accused- Bhagatram Bhanwarlal Devashi and Mangesh Choudhary.
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The complainant, Praveena Jagdish Jhaveri, is a Kandivali resident. Police stated on January 15, she was at house along with her grandchildren when she obtained a WhatsApp video name from an unknown quantity. The person launched himself as a police officer and informed her that her title had cropped up in a giant monetary fraud, the place her checking account was used to switch unlawful cash. Jhaveri was threatened with home raids and arrest at first.
“The accused then told the woman she was placed under ‘digital arrest’ at her own home,” a police officer stated. Shortly after being positioned below ‘digital arrest’, Jhaveri obtained one other name from a distinct man, who launched himself as a lawyer. He informed her he obtained her quantity from the police and requested her to cooperate with them, all of the whereas assuring her that he would assist.
To assist her with the ‘criminal investigation’, the lawyer demanded cash from her and obtained her checking account particulars. The con males ultimately coerced her into transferring cash to their checking account. In addition they falsely promised her a refund as soon as the investigation was full. Fearing arrest, the complainant transferred ₹9.45 lakh to the accused.
As time handed, she noticed no indicators of refund and approached the cyber police station. The police registered a dishonest case in opposition to the 2 males and started tracing the financial institution transactions. A particular group of the Kandivali police had been trying to find the accused, who had been on the run, for the previous two months. On Monday, Devashi and Choudhary, had been arrested from completely different elements of town. They had been then produced earlier than the Borivali courtroom the place they had been remanded to police custody for 3 days.
The police are actually investigating to seek out out whether or not the 2 have dedicated comparable crimes previously. “We are also trying to find out where they got the senior citizen’s mobile number from, and if they are in possession of data of mobile numbers of senior citizens,” stated a police officer.
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