M.K SODHI.KAPURTHALA.
Clicking on a link for investing in the share market proved costly for a government computer teacher. In just one week, a West Bengal firm swindled a huge amount of Rs 13.80 lakh from the government teacher. Not only this, the computer teacher, in a bid to earn huge profits, borrowed lakhs of rupees from his own money as well as friends and relatives.
The police of Cyber Crime Police Station has registered a case against two including a West Bengal firm under various sections of fraud and forgery and has intensified the search for the accused. Meanwhile, SSP Kapurthala Gaurav Tura said that people should refrain from clicking on any such unauthorized investment link coming on social media. He said that people should avoid falling prey to the trap of easy money earning methods.
In a complaint to SSP Kapurthala, Sukhwant Singh, resident of Bhulath, District Kapurthala, said that he is posted as a computer teacher in the Government High School Bhadas in the Education Department. On June 10, he received a message from a person named Ladia Sharma via WhatsApp on his mobile. When he asked him about the share market, he said yes. After which he started receiving messages related to the share market.
Initially, he did not show any interest. Then a few days later on July 05, he received a link with a message related to the share market. He was asked to fill his details in the link so that he could buy stock in the share market. Then he was sent a bank account and IFSC code to add money and his mobile number was added to a WhatsApp group. During this time, he kept having stock related discussions. These people deceived him to invest money. Then as per the advice of these people, from 08 July to 19 July, he invested an amount of about 13.80 lakh rupees by borrowing from his friends and relatives apart from his own money.
Every day he was asked to buy and sell stocks in different ways. After selling the stock, the amount would start showing in his ID. He was repeatedly asked to add money, so he kept adding money. Then on 21 July, the IPO of a company started showing in the account created by him, whose price was above 50-60 lakh rupees. He was forced to buy it.
When he refused, the said people started threatening him to make the payment that they would recover the money by selling all the stocks kept in his ID and would take legal action. After all this, he understood that he had been defrauded. The balance of his ID was emptied. When he tried to make network and WhatsApp calls on the company’s mobile number, both the calls were not connecting. He has requested the SSP to get the money back and take action against the accused.
The SSP handed over the responsibility of investigating the case to SHO Mandeep Kaur of Cyber Crime Police Station. After investigating the facts, the Cyber Crime Police submitted the report to DSP CAW, who after taking advice from DA Legal has started further action by registering a case against two people including a West Bengal firm.