Cyber suspect arrested

RSD- Konraopet news: CI Kiran Kumar said that on 02.06.2023, a person named Kommu Pochaiah from Sivangalapalli village of Konraopet mandal said that his son Kommu Prashanth had gone to Muscat country for survival and used to deposit money in the account number 064710100132494 and said to use two and half lakhs. Pochaiah went to the ATM and asked to withdraw money from the ATM, but the ATM showed that there was no money. So when contacted in the bank, the bank said that from 10.04.2023 onwards Rs 2,47,973/- has been drawn through online payment in several installments till 13.04.2023. Pochaiah filed a complaint at Konaraopet police station that some unknown persons had cheated him by withdrawing money from his son’s account online. After SSI Ramakanth filed a case on this, as part of Chandurthi CI Kiran Kumar’s investigation, Karri Naveen Kumar of Uddavolu village, Parvathipuram district, Andhra Pradesh state who is working as software employee in HBC company Bangalore, installed Jio fiber network in his house last February, then he took Jio SIM with 9346191678 number. On the next day that is on 03.04.2023, Naveen received a message in his Jio SIM that one lakh rupees was credited in the account, but the money was not deposited in his bank account, and on the other day that is on 07.04.2023, a message was received that interest of 1000 rupees was credited. When this money was also not deposited in his bank account, he created a Paytm account through his Jio number and found out that his Jio number was linked to the bank account of a person named Kommu Prashanth and knowing that Prashanth had two lakh forty five thousand retail money in his account, he cheated Prashanth and withdrew that money. Investigation of the case revealed that from 10.4.2023 to 13.04.2023 Naveen Kumar withdrew Rs.2,47,973/- in installments from Paytm created through his Jio number. But Kommu Prashant used Jio number 9346191678 before he went to Muscat and linked the same number to his union bank account after he went to Muscat and he did not use that number and did not deactivate that number to his bank account. A few months later the same number was assigned by the service provider to the accused Naveen Kumar, who took it and cheated Kommu Prashant and withdrew money from his account. This case was made through technology and Naveen Kumar took the money and was going to Hyderabad with his friends for spending it and on 11.07.2023 he was caught in Warangal and the total amount of two lakh 47 thousand 970 rupees was seized from him.

The appeal of the police to the public is that if anyone stops using their mobile number, they must de-activate the link to the bank account and digital payments account.

District SP congratulated Chandurthi CI Kiran Kumar, Konaraopet SSI Ramakanth staff ASI Srinivas Reddy constable Dandi Naresh who cracked the case and caught the accused and recovered the money.