Police tightens its grip on two cyber criminals, sent behind bars

Ranchi: With the help of Prakharna app, for the first time in Ranchi, two cyber criminals were caught from Gonda area of Ranchi. Both the criminals Pawan Mandal and Mantu Mandal are real brothers. Both are residents of Giridih. During police interrogation, it was revealed that both of them had been doing this racket for four years. Disclosing this, City SP Rajkumar Mehta said on Friday that both of them have victimized more than 150 people across the country including Ranchi. Investigation has revealed that both of them have acquired property worth crores from the defrauded money. City SP said that both of them had also kept the car, which has been confiscated by the police. During interrogation, he also revealed the details of other operatives of his gang.

Ranchi Police had received information that cyber criminals were present in the dam side of Gonda. This is where people are being cheated in the name of phishing and bank KYC update. The cyber criminals who cheated had also cheated a businessman from Andhra Pradesh for Rs 49 thousand. The businessman from Andhra had lodged a complaint on cyber crime portal number 1930. When the number of the thugs was put on CID’s Prakhand app, their location came to Ranchi.

Based on the location the police reached the dam side. Meanwhile, the suspect kept moving continuously. On the basis of suspicion, when the police tried to stop the white colored car, the driver started trying to run away. But the police chased and caught him. Two people were caught from the car, identified as notorious cyber criminals Pawan and Mantu.

Rs 22,000 in cash, ATM cards of several banks, passbooks, a large number of SIM cards and one and a half dozen mobile phones have been recovered from the arrested cyber criminals. Both the arrested criminals have been to jail several times from Uttar Pradesh and Giridih.

With the help of Prakharna app, more than 1000 cyber criminals have been arrested from Jharkhand in the last one year. This is the reason why now cyber criminals are moving out of Giridih, Deoghar, Jamtara and Dhanbad and making Ranchi their base. So that he can escape from the eyes of the police. Ranchi City SP said that the arrested cyber criminals are being interrogated so that their entire syndicate can be caught.

The 16th State Level Security Committee meeting for Jharkhand was organized by RBI Patna in Ranchi on Friday. ATM security along with currency safe in Jharkhand was discussed. The meeting was presided over by CID Director General Anurag Gupta. He stressed on expediting the handling of fraud related cases in banks. Banks were also stressed upon to take immediate action on matters related to cyber fraud and cyber security.