“More than 15 cases of obscene material have been registered in Maharashtra’s Tilak Nagar police station, including your name. You are now under digital arrest. You are not to speak to anyone until our investigation is complete. This matter of obscene content is very serious, for which you can be sentenced to three years in jail and a fine of up to five lakhs.”… Saying something like this, the cyber thug attacked a retired officer of Hindustan Copper Ltd. The company, based in Mangal Colony, Ujjain, has a crores of rupees. Cheated.
The entire case is of Madhavnagar police station area. Ravindra Kulkarni (76), a resident of Mangal Colony, lives with his two sons. Kulkarni is a retired officer of Hindustan Copper Limited. He reached the police station and filed a complaint that he received a WhatsApp call on his mobile on September 11. The caller, who identified himself as Hemraj Kohli, identified himself as SI of Tilak Nagar Maharashtra Police Station.
Name threat in obscene content case
As soon as Hemraj Kohli called, he threatened Ravindra Kulkarni that more than 15 cases of obscene material have been registered, including your name. When Ravindra Kulkarni said that he had no involvement in any such case and that he had been falsely implicated, Hemraj Kohli asked him not to tell anyone this time, saying that the entire matter would be investigated.
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Cheated by posing as fake SI
Ravindra Kulkarni was so caught up in the fake SI that he did not say anything about it to his sons and other family members for three days. Meanwhile, out of fear, he transferred 2 crore 55 lakh rupees from his wife’s account to different accounts. After the transfer of money, Hemraj Kohli’s demand was always increasing. Even after receiving this money, he used to scare Ravindra Kulkarni that there is a provision of three years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5 lakh in such a case.
Police complaint after 9 days of incident
Ravindra Kulkarni told the police that between September 11 and September 13, he was under digital arrest at home. The caller sometimes threatened them by showing them obscene videos and sometimes threatened them in the name of money laundering. After losing Rs 2 crore 55 lakh, Ravindra Kulkarni thought of going to the police and complaining about it on 13 September, but he was so nervous that it took him almost 9 days to even file a complaint and went to the police station. The complaint about this reached Madhavnagar.
‘Do not fall into temptation’
This is not the first incident of digital arrest. Even before this, many people have lost crores of rupees by getting caught in this cycle. Police have registered a case against Ravindra Kulkarni regarding this incident and started investigation. SP Pradeep Sharma said that we have blocked other accounts of Ravindra Kulkarni, so that no more money can be withdrawn from his account. We have also advised the residents of our city not to fall into any kind of temptation.
