4 cybercriminals held from UP, K’taka brought to city

Ranchi: Four cybercriminals arrested in Uttar Pradesh and Kerala were brought to Ranchi on transit remand on Tuesday, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said on Wednesday. Luvkush, Manish Kumar and Arun Kumar were arrested from Ghaziabad and Arun Babu from Bengaluru, they added. The CID had registered a case in connection with the Bengaluru arrest on the complaint of Baidnath Kumar, secretary of Ranchi-based non-government organisation — Child Right Foundation— on August 30.Director General CID, Anurag Gupta said, “The arrests were made with the support of Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka police. The cops involved in the raids would get cash reward of Rs 5,000 each and the other ranks Rs 3,000 each.”In his complaint, Kumar said that he had come to know that an open group on telegram chat platform is functional to provide child sex videos. He was keeping a vigil on the group by becoming its member for the past one year. Kumar then got a link to get added to another group named ‘Ladkiyon Ka Adda’. Subsequently, he got a message that he would get more than 8,000 child porn videos for Rs 220. Kumar got access to five videos, after making payment in which all children featured were from some Indian state. Following this, he lodged a complaint with CID, Ranchi. The CID got in touch with the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) established by the Ministry of Home Affairs and with their technical support reached Bengaluru from where Arun Babu was arrested in connection with the child pornography. He was forwarded to jail on Wednesday.In another case, the CID team arrested Manish Kumar and Arun Kumar in connection with a cheating case. The accused had sent messages regarding betting on GV Football.com website. Those who registered were asked to download a malicious GV Football Gaming App. They were asked to invest with the promise that withdrawal of a maximum amount of Rs 50,000 with 12 per cent tax deduction would be allowed. The company, however, stopped the withdrawal on April 27 and fled. The CID along with I4C analysed the case and found the involvement of a fake proprietorship firm Manish Enterprises in the fraud. A transaction of Rs 24 crore was done in a related account in April. The analysis of the app has revealed that its internet protocol address is in China and Hong Kong.In another case, Luvkush was arrested after Bindeshwari Singh complained that the accused convinced him to transfer Rs 87 lakh in the name of getting a refund of matured policy of a private bank.
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