Conman posing as Metro Cash and Carry MD & CEO harrass employees through confusing messages booked by North CEN Police

Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar

The North Division Cyber crime police are on the lookout for an unidentified person who posing as MD and CEO of metro cash and carry India private limited,harassing the employees through confusing messages.

Based on the complaint filed by J Jayanth Hemanoth,Systems and regional IT Security officer,the police have registered a case against unknown person charging him under section 66 and 66C (fraudulently or dishonestly make use of the electronic signature, password or any other unique identification feature of any other person) of the IT Act.

In his complaint,Mr.Hemanoth said that the incident occurred from June 17 to September 25 that someone in the name of MD and CEO.

Arvind Mediratta,started sending messages from different email ID and whatsapp numbers giving wrong information and harassing them.

The employees raised a complaint with the higher ups prompting the IT security division to take up the issue and found that the caller is using many Ids and Whatsapp numbers.

A case has been registered on Thursday and details from service providers are awaited, a police officer, said .