Pramesh S Jain 
The Northeast Division Cyber Crime Police have registered a case against unknown people who posing as TRAI officials threatened to book a case under money laundering and made away with Rs.11.8 crore on the pretext of verifying his bank accounts .
The victim,Vijay Kumar,39,resident of GKVK Layout was threatened with fake cases held him under digital arrest for almost a month claiming that he is under investigations before transferring the amount .
Realizing that he had been cheated the victim approached the police finally and filed a complaint on December 12.
According to the complaint,Mr.Kumar received the call from unknown people claiming to be from the department of TRAI and informed him that his SIM number is being used for illegal activities and a case has been probed by Mumbai crime branch.
The caller informed him further using his Aadhar card a person identified as Naresh Goel has opened a bank account in nationalized bank and used the account for money laundering to the tune of Rs.6 Crore .
The accused made him to download skype App and said that he was under digital arrest before accessing all his bank accounts for verification.
Vijay Kumar for the last one month followed their instructions and not revealed this to anyone as they threatened him that the case is in Supreme Court and his family members will be in danger if he revealed this to anyone.
The accused accessed all his nine bank accounts and made transactions total worth Rs.11,83,55,648.52 between November 11 to December 12.
The victim after realizing his money has been transferred revealed this to his family members before approaching the police .
City police commissioner B.Dayananda, said that a case has been registered under IT act and also under cheating and impersonation under BNS for further investigation.
