New Delhi, 18 September 2022: Three suspects were recently detained by Delhi Police after they caught up with a group of fraudsters who had been defrauding people out of 9,85,000 rupees by breaking into the servers and payment gateways of a retail business in Nagpur.
Soon after, the police registered a cheating case and filed the FIR under section 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and an investigation was taken up.
This came after the Director of Paytel Private Limited filed a complaint at the Cyber South Police Station, stating that after breaking into the retailer’s system and making fraudulent transactions worth 9,85,000, someone altered the login ID and password.
Upon investigation, the Virtual Payment Network (VPN) was also found to be used for hacking purposes. Additionally, the transaction details and IP address were. While the police had also employed technical surveillance to find the banks involved in the transactions in Nagpur.
The police squad arrived at the place after Nikhil Pise’s position in Nagpur was pinpointed. After being questioned, Nikhil Pise admitted that he gave his friend Saurabh Subhashrao Karnewar his card and account information when he asked for them.
Additionally, it was discovered that they were in contact with a man by the name of Ayush and a foreigner who were actually accessing the Payment Gateways’ computers and giving them phony debit cards and SIM cards. The cops were also given information about those two people. In addition, the police seized five laptops, six mobile phones, 70 SIM cards, and 66 debit cards from the custody of the three suspects.
