Odisha Police Arrests Mother-Son From Ghaziabad In Digital Arrest Case

Cuttack, Dec 28: The Cyber Crime Unit Team of Odisha Police’s Crime Branch arrested mother-son duo Neelam Aggarwal & Vansh Aggarwal from Ghaziabad for their involvement in a Digital Arrest Case registered in the CID CB Cyber PS.

According to police, the accused persons were part of a wider network of cyber fraudsters who were operating a fraud company in the pretext of gaming platform.

Police said, a senior citizen from Bhubaneswar complained that he got calls from some unknown Mobile numbers and a Toll free number , impersonating them as Fedex Courier Office and police personnel from
Mumbai Cyber Crime Division.

They alleged that the Aadhaar Card of complainant has been hacked by some miscreant and it has been used for money laundering.

In this connection criminal case has been registered and they threatened that he would have to undergo punishment of three to seven years imprisonment. They asked him to transfer all of his money to an Account suggested by them for verification and stated that later all the amount would be reverted back to his account. Thus they forced him to transfer of Rs 1,37,90,000 in five transactions from his SBI account as well as from his wife’s SBI accounts’ to the fraudsters between 14.05.2024 to 18.05.2024.

The Cyber Crime Unit of the Crime Branch, after reviewing the money transactions identified that victim had deposited Rs.1.38 Crore in three different accounts and out of that Rs.1.12 Crores were deposited in account of Vansheel Software Private Limited.

During investigation it was ascertained that Neelam Aggarwal and Vansh Aggarwal of Ghaziabad were the proprietors of the said firm.

The Crime Branch team went to Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh and from the Vijay Nagar Police Station area and arrested both Neelam Aggarwal and Vansh Aggarwal and brought them on transit remand to Odisha on 27.12.2024. The duo had created around 13 accounts for siphoning off the defrauded amount. All the

accounts were created at PNB and SBI in different branches at Meerut, UP. The accused persons were previously arrested by Mandir Marg Cyber Crime Police Station, New Delhi in Case No.17/2024, which was also a digital arrest case modus operandi and the cheated amount was Rs.63 Lakhs approximately.

On verification through the NCRP portal, it has been ascertained that the duo are involved in more than 15 cases in different states throughout the country.