CHANDIGARH POLICE BRIEF OF CASES DATED

20.03.2023

Murder

A case FIR No. 85, U/S 307, 120-B added 302 IPC has been registered in PS-36, Chandigarh on the complaint of Vishal R/o # 517, Village Kajheri, Chandigarh (age-19 yrs) who alleged that Sahil, Kala & Rishabh R/o # 520, Kajheri, Chandigarh, they were attacked on complainant and his friends on 18-03-2023 and Stabbed his friend Subhash with knife, who sustained injuries got admitted to hospital and expired during treatment. Alleged persons have been arrested. Investigation of the case is in progress.

One arrested for consuming liquor at public place

Chandigarh Police arrested Yogesh R/o # 809, Village Burail, Chandigarh (age-22 yrs), Karan R/o # 303 Village Kajheri Chandigarh (age-19 yrs) and Rajesh R/o # 302 Village Kajheri (age-32 yrs), while consuming liquor at public place and create nuisance near Sports Complex, Sector-50 Chandigarh on 16.03.2023. A case FIR No. 23, U/S 68-1(B) Punjab Police Act 2007 & 510 IPC registered in PS-49, Chandigarh. Later they were bailed out. Investigation of the case is in progress.

Action against Gambling

Chandigarh Police arrested Ashok Kumar Panday R/o Village Bhojpur, PO, Garwara, Distt. Partapgarh (UP) (age-56 yrs) and Surinder Kumar R/o # 52, Room No. 28, Village Attawa, Sector-42, Chandigarh (age-46 yrs) while they were playing satta from near SCO NO. 2901-02, Sector-22C, Chandigarh on 19-03-2023. Total cash Rs. 3100/- was recovered from their possession. A case FIR No. 37, U/S 13-3-67 Gambling Act has been registered in PS-17, Chandigarh. Later, they were released on bail. Investigation of the case is in progress.

Action against obstruction in public way

A case FIR No. 13 u/s 283 IPC has been registered in PS-19, Chandigarh against Irshad R/o # 1465, Churi Wali Gali Manimajra Chandigarh who was obstructed public way by installing fari near shop No. 9, Sadar Bazar,

Sector-19, Chandigarh on 19-03-2023. Alleged person arrested and later, he was later bailed out. Investigation of the case is in progress.

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Police Station- Cyber Crime

Team of Police Station Cyber Crime busted a Gang of fraudsters with arrest of 02 accused in FIR No. 23 dated 05.03.2023, U/S 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B IPC, PS – Cyber Crime, Chandigarh under supervision/direction of Sh. Ketan Bansal, IPS, SP/Cyber Crime, Chandigarh, close guidance of Sh. Mridul, IPS, Addl. SP/PS-Cyber Crime, UT, Chandigarh and leadership of Inspector Ranjit Singh, SHO, PS-Cyber Crime, Chandigarh.

Detail of Accused-

Brief Facts of Case:-

The present case has been registered on the complaint of Mr. Arpan Sharma , Branch Manager, Federal Bank, Sector 22 C Chandigarh. In which he reported that he received a call from an unknown mobile number, while he was driving. The caller pretended to be their client Mr Rajesh Makkar and he told that he need to transfer the payment on urgent basis and he can share the detail over the phone/Whastapp and original documents will be shared later. After that Mr Arpan Sharma shared the same number with his staff Mr Aditya Verma and asked to speak with Mr Raj Makkar on same number to get his queries and do the needful. After that Mr Aditya Verma called on said mobile number and alleged person pretend himself as Raj Makkar and he asked to transfer the payment. Then he shared the detail of accounts in which he wants to transfer the funds on whatsapp with Aditya Verma as asked to execute the same on urgent basis. His photograph on watts app was same as their client Mr. Rajesh Makkar. On this he executed the transactions in accounts provided through whatsapp. Later when he again asked to do the transaction, they got some suspicious and confirmed through mobile number of Mr Rajesh Makkar which was registered in his accounts, Where he told that no such instructions were given to anyone to transfer the funds and he asked us to report the same with police. Later he deleted all the chat he did with Mr Aditya Verma including his Profile pic on whatsapp. He stated that the accused defraud the complainant bank with Rs. 1892000/-. .

During the course of investigation CAF and CDR of alleged mobile number obtained and found that the location of the said number is in the area of Delhi NCR. Further, bank statement of the account of Mr. Rajesh Makkar (Federal bank) obtained and found that Rs. 957000/- have been transferred in Indusind bank and Rs. 935000/- have been transferred in Canara Bank. Bank statements of alleged bank accounts obtained and after scrutiny of bank statements found that some gold was also purchased through cheated amount and rest amount was withdrawn through ATM’s in Delhi NCR,. From the scrutiny of documents found that the mobile numbers registered in alleged banks are in the name of Manish Kumar, Rajaram Meena, Sonu Kumar, Arjun Singh and from the scrutiny of CDR’s and IMEI numbers of alleged numbers found that multiple sim cards are using In these IMEI’s and all the sim cards are in the name of Manish Kumar, Rajaram Meena, Sonu Kumar, Arjun Singh and location of the all sim cards is in Delhi NCR and Assandh, Haryana area. On the basis of technical surveillance and upon secret information on 16.3.2023 raid was conducted at Delhi NCR and Asandh, Karnal, Haryana. During the course of investigation alleged Amarjit Singh and Kuldeep Pannu were arrested by the sincere efforts of Police Station Cyber Crime, team headed by SI K.D. Singh, HC Bahadur Lal, HC Rajender Singh, HC Balwinder Singh, C Baljeet Singh. Both accused were produced before the Hon’ble Court and their police remand till 20.3.2023 was obtained.

Master Minds:

During interrogation found that accused Amarjeet Singh, Kuldeep Pannu are the master minds and their associates withdraw the cheated amount from banks and they used their documents to open the bank accounts and to obtain the sim cards in their names for cheating purpose. During interrogation accused Kuldeep Pannu and Amarjit Singh disclosed that they were also involved in two other cases of cyber loan fraud, one case is registered in Rajasthan and other case is registered in Sahranpur, U.P (Victim of the said case was suicide due to over burden of loan) and they are bail out in both cases. After bail out in both cases, in August, 2022 they constructed new gang with their associates Pankaj, Ashish, Ankur Jindal, Ravi again, with new modus operandi. They cheated the various banks i.e. Federal Bank, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Bank of Baroda, Yes Bank, Axis Bank etc. in all over India with approx. Rs. 2 Crore.

Use of fraudulent amount:

1. Purchase Mahindra Thar
2. Purchase Gold rings, chains

Modus Operandi:

During the course of investigation, it has found that the accused obtain the details of two Wheeler/ Four Wheeler vehicle agencies through google and after that they obtain the bank detail/ Cheque of agency by contacting the Sales Manager/ Managing director of the agency and after that they morphed the cheque for cheating purpose. After that they contact with concerned branch manager of bank in which said agency’s account is operated and send the same cheque through whatsapp by stating that there is an emergency and transfer the funds in given account and due to reputation of agency concerned branch manager transfer the funds.

Recovery from accused: -

Total value of above said recovery is approax 28 lakcs

Tips:- 1. In case of cyber fraud, Dial Helpline No. 1930 or 112.

2. Don’t trust call/ documents received through whatsapp from unknown mobile numbers.

3. Reverify the account details from the original source before transfer funds

4. Don’t share/ issue your cheque to any stranger.

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VALEDICTION PROGRAMME OF2^ND BATCH OF CYBER INTERNS – CUM - CYBER

AWARENESS SESSION UNDER CYBER SWACHHTA MISSION ON 21^st MARCH, 2023 AT TAGORE THEATER, SECTOR-18, CHANDIGARH

Chandigarh Police is organizing valediction of 2^nd batch of Cyber Interns-cum- Cyber Awareness session on 21^stMarch, 2023 at Tagore Theater, Sector-18 Chandigarh. The students from Government schools, RWA/MWA members, Senior Citizen & others will attend the aforesaid event. H.E. Shri Banwarilal Purohit, Hon’ble Governor of Punjab –cum- Administrator UT Chandigarh will be the chief guest of this event. The senior officers of Chandigarh Administration, Chandigarh Police and the Editors of Newspapers & representative from RBI, Infosys have been invited in this event.

Awareness Campaign Under Cyber Swachhta Mission

Cyber Soldier Prepared/Trained Under Cyber Swachhta Mission

Following Activity will be performed:-

• Approx. 1200 persons i.e. Cyber Interns, students from Government Schools, members of RWA/MWA, Senior Citizens etc. will attend the event.
  • Valediction of 2^nd Batch of Cyber Internship and certification.
  • Release of Booklet on Cyber Swachhta Mission.
  • Awareness session and other activity will be performed by Cyber Interns.
  • Prize will be given to winners best top 05 interns and 02 top teams of presentation and 1^st three winners of drawing competition on theme of cyber awareness.
  • Announcement of 3^rd Cyber Internship Batch.
  • Flag off Cyber Awareness Van.

CYBER SWACHHTA MISSION

Chandigarh Police in its community outreach initiative to inculcate Cyber Hygiene and spread cyber awareness,associated students from esteemed colleges/institutes as a part of Cyber Swachhta Mission, UT, Chandigarh launched on 17^th November 2021.

Cyber Internship Programme

After the successfully completion of 1^st batch in June 2022, Chandigarh Police had launched 2^nd Batch of Cyber Internship, in which enrolment forms of approx. 1100 students from various colleges of Tri-city had received, out of which, 389 students from about 9 different colleges & institutes had been selected and divided in 16 Teams as per police station to carry out various cyber related awareness & survey activities. The training had been scheduled under the following modules by the Infosys and Cyber officials. Also training in regards to Cyberhygiene, Open source tools have been provided by the Cyber officials, CDTI Chandigarh and prominent cyber expert.

The objective of thisprogramme is toengage the youth in nation building and national security, Cyber Literary and cyber security awareness, Discerning penetrating insights into social media and thus creating a positive and robust cyber space & Collection of information/facts from open sources to produce actionable intelligence.

The target and goals of this programme is to raise committed cyber soldiers, Empowering the youth to build a constructive cyber space, to reduce the impacts of cyber crime, work on areas where cyber crime can be stopped.

Winners list

Top best five interns are:-

1^stNakulPhull from SD College

2^ndPayal Gulati from MCM College

3^rdYavneekafrom MCM College

4^thArshpreetSD College

5^thAbhishek Goel CEC, Landra

Best two team of presentation

1^stAnjellina

2^ndlovleen

Three winners of drawing competition

1^stKhushdeepfromGMSSS Sarangpur,Chandigarh

2^nd ArchanafromGMSSS Sector-26, Chandigarh

3^rd Amritpal Singh from School GMSSS Dhanas,Chandigarh