Man duped of Rs 6L on promise of MBBS seat in Russian varsity

Mahesh Sharma

Mandi Ahmedgarh, Feb 23

The Ahmedgarh Sadar Police have registered an FIR against unknown persons under Section 420 of the IPC and 66(D) of the Information Technology Act, 2000, for allegedly duping a resident of Rasulpur of Rs6,10,970 on the pretext of getting his son admission in MBBS at a medical college in Russia.

Though the police have collected details of at least 11 bank accounts of separate persons to which the amount was transferred on different occasions, the account holders had not been named in the FIR, fearing that the accused might have used fake IDs to open these accounts.

Strangely enough, the victim family has never met any of the accused personally and all transactions were made after receiving online instructions or telephonic messages.

Aslam Khan, a resident of Rasulpur village, alleged that the accused, at least 11 in number, had phished his son Feroze Khan. The Cyber Crime wing of the Sangrur district police were verifying the details.

Kingpin of the gang, a woman purportedly living in Amritsar had assured the victim family that she would manage MBSS admission for Feroze as she had links in a university in Russia. She had instigated the family to transfer money in various accounts being run under different names at different branches in Punjab and Rajasthan.

Having received the complaint, Sangrur SSP Viveksheel Soni had deployed the incharge of the human trafficking unit and incharge cyber cell, Sangrur, to submit a report after investigating the case.

The investigations revealed that the victim’s family had transferred various amounts from the joint account of the complaint and his wife being run a nationalised bank at Ahmedgarh.

Amandeep Kaur, SHO, Sadar, said the case had been registered against unknown persons as genuineness of ID proofs used for opening the related bank accounts, was yet to be verified.