2 held for creating pretend social media fan web page of Gujarat meeting Speaker, duping individuals

The Vadodara Cyber Crime on Wednesday detained two individuals, each natives of Haryana, for allegedly making a pretend social media account, ‘Rajendra Trivedi Fan Club’, and demanding cash from unsuspecting followers of the state Assembly Speaker.
According to police, Premal Modi, Trivedi’s aide, had approached the Cyber Crime on February 4 after it got here to mild that the impostor account had demanded cash to the tune of Rs 15,000 from followers, to be paid to a cellular quantity by way of cellphone cost providers.
The accused, Bholeram Sharma (30) and Manmohan Gupta (34), residents of Palwal in Haryana, have allegedly dedicated a sequence of such monetary frauds utilizing greater than 800 cellular numbers, police stated.
The modus operandi utilized by the lads concerned opening financial institution accounts within the title of different individuals and providing them 5 per cent fee from the cash collected by sending fraudulent messages on social networking websites that are deposited into the accounts of such individuals. To disguise their identification, the duo collected an enormous stash of SIM playing cards from numerous states and used them relying on the state their subsequent goal belonged to.
Police stated the duo had created a number of pretend fan pages or accounts of well-known public figures and dedicated related the offences. The Crime Branch got here throughout 800 cell phone numbers that the duo had used to date to commit such crimes and amass cash.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, Jaydeepsinh Jadeja stated, “Based on the technical investigation of the number mentioned in the fake fan page the accused created, we traced them to Palwal in Haryana. Combined with human intelligence, we arrested Bholeram first and he led us to Manmohan, also a resident of Haryana.”
Modi, in his assertion to the police, acknowledged, “On Thursday, I was present at the office of Rajendra Trivedi when several of our friends began calling me and told me that a fake social media fan page, which also used a profile picture of Trivedi saheb, had sought financial help of Rs 15,000 through a phone payment application. When we verified the claim, we realised that a fake fan page, resembling our official page, had been created. There were also abusive messages sent out from this fake profile to people.”
The Vadodara cybercrime has lodged an offence towards unidentified individuals beneath Indian Penal Code sections 499 (defamation), 504 (provocation to interrupt the general public peace), 120 B (prison conspiracy) and in addition the Information Technology Act 66(c) for fraudulent or dishonest use of digital signature and identification, and 66(d) for dishonest by personation by utilizing laptop useful resource.Jadeja added the duo could be arrested formally after the necessary Covid-19 check studies are adverse.