Kinnar, 2 associates arrested on cybercrime charge
Kinnar, 2 associates arrested on cybercrime charge
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Bhubaneswar: On Thursday, three people, including a transgender person, were arrested by Cyber Police in Odisha's capital on allegations of Rs 31,500 online fraud.
Soumyarjan Pradhan (aka Manisha), Tusharkanti Bai, and Sunil Samantray have been named as the defendants.
According to sources, Manisha called a businessman named Vikash Sehgal and introduced himself as a minister's personal assistant (PA).
He informed the businessman that the minister was unavailable and that his mother required funds to do a 'yajna' at his home. He duped the victim of Rs 31,500 using PhonePay after convincing him by calling in a feminine voice and introducing himself as the minister's mother.
After discovering that several con artists had duped him, Sehgal filed a complaint with the Cyber police station on November 12, and an investigation was launched, culminating to his detention.
The cops took Rs 50,000 from Manisha's hands and all other bank accounts used for cyber crime. "Tusharkanti Bai of Berhampur and Sunil of Jajpur had given Manisha their bank account information for this purpose." "They used to take 10% of the scam money and give the remainder to the main suspect," a police officer explained.
He said that the accused had previously used the same method to steal Rs 1.5 lakh from two people.
He stated that three cases have already been registered in Bhubaneswar, two in Berhampur and Sambalpur, and one in Angul against transsexual Manisha, who completed a diploma course at a private college in Berhampur.
