JAIPUR: A day after arresting the cyber crook who duped Rs 2.5 crore of a Sawai Madhopur based woman, police on Monday said the accused used to pose himself as chartered accountant in Mussoorie and a case is pending against him in Maharashtra.
The SOG wing of Rajasthan police said the accused was sent to six-day police remand. The sleuths are now planning to retrieve data from his mobile phone, laptop and other gadgets. Niraj Soni was arrested from his Mussoorie-based office in a case in which he had posed himself as one ‘Rebecca Christine’ and duped a Sawai Madhopurbased woman of Rs 2.5 crore on the pretext of making her the heir of a 3.9-million-dollar inheritance.
“He was produced in a court from where we have taken him to police remand for six days. His criminal antecedents would be checked and we will also apply to retrieve data from his laptop, mobile phone and other electronic gadgets,” said Sharat Kaviraj, DIG, SOG.
The matter had come to light in 2017 when the victim alleged that she was duped of Rs 2.5 crore by a woman who had introduced herself as Rebecca Christine on a social media website.
“It has also come to our notice that the accused had a pending case of cheating in Maharashtra and he has been into the crime for a long time. He was earlier been interrogated in a cheating case by Delhi police but was released. Also it is found that at Mussoorie he used to pose himself as a chartered accountant,” Kaviraj added.
As Christine, the accused claimed that she was a wealthy woman living alone after her husband died recently. A few days later, Christine messaged the victim on Facebook that she was suffering from cancer and wanted to give her property worth 3.9 million dollars. The victim agreed to become the inheritor of Christine’s property.
The SOG wing of Rajasthan police said the accused was sent to six-day police remand. The sleuths are now planning to retrieve data from his mobile phone, laptop and other gadgets. Niraj Soni was arrested from his Mussoorie-based office in a case in which he had posed himself as one ‘Rebecca Christine’ and duped a Sawai Madhopurbased woman of Rs 2.5 crore on the pretext of making her the heir of a 3.9-million-dollar inheritance.
“He was produced in a court from where we have taken him to police remand for six days. His criminal antecedents would be checked and we will also apply to retrieve data from his laptop, mobile phone and other electronic gadgets,” said Sharat Kaviraj, DIG, SOG.
The matter had come to light in 2017 when the victim alleged that she was duped of Rs 2.5 crore by a woman who had introduced herself as Rebecca Christine on a social media website.
“It has also come to our notice that the accused had a pending case of cheating in Maharashtra and he has been into the crime for a long time. He was earlier been interrogated in a cheating case by Delhi police but was released. Also it is found that at Mussoorie he used to pose himself as a chartered accountant,” Kaviraj added.
As Christine, the accused claimed that she was a wealthy woman living alone after her husband died recently. A few days later, Christine messaged the victim on Facebook that she was suffering from cancer and wanted to give her property worth 3.9 million dollars. The victim agreed to become the inheritor of Christine’s property.
