Nalgonda Cops Nab Rajasthan Gang Creating Fake FB IDs of Police Officers

Nalgonda Cops Nab Rajasthan Gang Creating Fake FB IDs of Police Officers

They are not well educated and worked as auto or truck drivers. But their ingeniousness knew no bounds. Even while working as auto an truck drivers, the quartet managed to create fake Facebook accounts of nearly 350 policemen in the country and began soliciting hand loans in the name of their victim police officers.

But their cyber escapades could not be carried on for long, as one of their victims, AV Ranganath, Nalgonda district Superintendent of Police, managed to get the better of them and got the four gangsters, hailing from Rajasthan, arrested after a painstaking investigation. Police team also seized Rs 5 lakh in cash, eight mobile phones, 30 SIM cards and fake aadhaar cards and other documents from their possession. Preliminary investigations revealed that the four gangsters created fake accounts of as many as 81 police officers of Telangana. In all they created fake FB accounts of 350 police officers, it was said.

The arrested were: Mustaqueem, Saddam Khan, Shaeed and a juvenile of Kethawada in Bharathpur district of Rajasthan. The district police chief formed a special team to nab them after these allged cyber criminals created fake Facebook accounts on his name and other district police officers and began soliciting handloans through PayTM. T Today