One person arrested for cheating IIT Jodhpur professor of Rs 23 lakh

Jodhpur (Rajasthan): The Karwad police have arrested the accused in a cyber fraud case in which a professor of IIT Jodhpur lost Rs 23.22 lakh. The accused, Manu Garg (40), is a resident of New Aliganj, Sector 19 of Aligarh district in Uttar Pradesh.

Karwad police station sub-inspector Mahendra Singh, who is the investigating officer in the case, said the accused was lured by the gang members with the promise of Rs 1.5 lakh per month for each new account. For this, he opened a current account with Yes Bank and gave the bank kit along with a new SIM card to the fraudsters so that the stolen money could be deposited there. He was produced before the court on Tuesday, which remanded him in police custody for three days.

The professor, Amrita Puri (35), had informed the Karwad police on August 12 that she had received calls from seven different numbers on August 1, with the callers threatening her by posing as officers of the Mumbai Crime Branch and telling her that she was a suspect in a money laundering case. She was called to Agra and put up in a hotel where she was put under digital surveillance for 10 days. Later, she was duped of Rs 23.22 lakh, which was transferred to the newly opened account.

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