Senior TV journalist Nidhi Razdan information criticism with Delhi Police
2 min read Delhi Police’s cyber crime cell will examine a criticism obtained from senior TV journalist Nidhi Razdan who has mentioned she was a sufferer of a phishing rip-off through which she was given a fraudulent provide of a place of Associate Professor on the Harvard University.
Razdan filed the criticism with the Delhi Police on Monday relating to fee of cognisable offences together with forgery, dishonest, id fraud and impersonation by unknown accused in opposition to her. Earlier, she had filed an analogous criticism with the Jammu and Kashmir Police on January 16 when she was in Srinagar.
A senior Delhi Police officer mentioned that an investigation could be undertaken on the premise of the criticism which was filed at a police station in South East district. A sequence of emails exchanged with these behind the alleged rip-off in addition to different paperwork linked with the matter have been enclosed with the criticism.
Her lawyer Shri Singh mentioned Razdan had obtained an electronic mail in December 2019 containing a purported provide from Harvard University for educating journalism. Thereafter, she resigned as Executive Editor of NDTV final June.
However, she had come to know final week {that a} sequence of emails and cast paperwork despatched over a interval of 1 yr had been an elaborate rip-off to dishonestly and fraudulently trigger loss to her, Singh mentioned.
Razdan has urged the cyber crime cell to undertake an in depth and thorough investigation to hint the accused and register an FIR on this regard.
She has additionally requested Harvard University to register a criticism with the FBI or different related authorities to analyze this crime, in line with the lawyer.
