Pramesh S Jain
The Whitefield CEN Crime Police arrested an African national,his wife and four of his relatives who were duping people online.
The accused has impersonated an Indian groom settled abroad on various matrimonial sites and duped two women in the city.
According to the police,the arrested person has been identified as a Nigerian national named Bright Mudukhas (25),his wife Devain Madukashi, their relatives Emanuel Vasama,John Alex,Ejiju Madukashi and Maria Emanuel Madukashi.He has been living in Vipin Garden Extension at Uttam Nagar in New Delhi.
Bright is wanted in at least 10 such cases in Whitefield sub-division police jurisdiction alone.
Senior officer, told media persons,The prime accused Bright is running the racket who posing as white collar professionals trap people on marriage portals ans on social media luring them into relationship and cheat them.
Using similar modus Operandi,Bright approached Vidushi,a private firm employee on shadi.Com.Bright introduced himself as Raj Kishore,a civil engineer based in Malaysia and proposed to marry her.
The accused began to communicate with her using foreign SIM to make her belive that he is living in Malaysia.
The accused would chat with her on whatsApp and even called her many times before proposing to marry.
On November 2 the accused sought emergency financial help to get the consignment from foreign Country.Believing him Vidushi transfered Rs 24.5 lakh to the account which he had mentioned.
The cheating came to light when accused as soon as he received the money disconnected the calls he added.
DCP, Whitefield,D Devaraj,said,After receiving a complaint,when the police kept a watch on the account number,to which victim had transferred the amount, was found to be from Bengaluru.Initially,we thought that the account holder was the main accused,but a detailed probe revealed that she (Anliya) too was a victim.She, too, had fallen in his trap but she had not lost money yet.
The police added that Bright had given another excuse and he had asked her to send her debit card along with pin number to withdraw money deposited by victim.Getting this important input, our team as, Inspector Guruprasad and Nagesh PSI headed to New Delhi and took the help of the post office in New Delhi, where we made Bright come to the post office to collect the Debit card, he said.
The police added that when he came to the post office asking for the debit card, the CEN police team arrested him and produced before the Judge in Tihar Central prisons, secured a transit warrant and brought him to Bengaluru on Saturday morning.Inquiries revealed that Bright has duped as many as 10 people and used different Sim cards everytime.
The team seized,four laptops,ten mobile phones from the accused and are analysing the gadgets found that the accused have made transactions in 58 banks accounts including 28 foreign bank accounts.
The police found all the accused did not have any travel documents and investigating further about the criminal background.
A case has been registered against the accuses under cheating and Foreigners Act and the accused has remanded to police custody to investigate further he added.
Finally Bengaluru police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,has appreciated,Addl CP,East,S Murugan,DCP, Whitefield,D Devaraj,PI, Guruprasad G,PSI,Nagesh GN, and other staff who has successfully nabbed the notorious accused who used to cheat people online for the exemplary work done by the team a suitable reward will be given to them he added .
