The Gurgaon cyber police Wednesday arrested a woman for allegedly creating a fake Instagram account to send death threats to her husband and herself.
The accused, identified as Priya Mishra, is a resident of a housing society in Sohna. The police arrested her after a probe into a complaint she filed at the cybercrime south police station on May 29. Mishra, in her complaint, stated that she and her husband were receiving repeated death threats from a woman’s Instagram account.
The police filed a case under the relevant provisions and formed a team under the supervision of Priyanshu Diwan, Assistant Commissioner of Police (cybercrime), and led by Inspector Naveen Kumar, to probe it.
“During interrogation, Mishra confessed to creating a fake Instagram account under a woman’s name due to marital disputes with her husband. She sent death threats to both herself and her husband and filed a false police complaint to register the case. Further investigation is underway”, a police spokesperson said.
The police said they have recovered the mobile phone used in the crime from her possession.
Between January and May this year, the Gurgaon cybercrime police arrested 52 people and apprehended a minor in connection with various cyber fraud cases that involved a total amount of Rs 61.65 crore.
The arrests, made by teams from various cybercrime police stations, led to the resolution of 12,607 complaints and 502 registered cases nationwide, including 28 cases in Haryana. According to the police, the accused in those cases used tactics such as fake social media profiles, sextortion, investment scams, impersonation of officials, and schemes like the FedEx fraud to deceive victims. The operations resulted in the recovery of 26 mobile phones, five laptops, three SIM cards, an ATM card, and a chequebook, along with Rs 15.36 lakh in cash.
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Examination of the seized devices by the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) revealed the scale of the fraud, the officers said. Among the cases, five were registered at the cybercrime east police station, two at the cybercrime west police station, and one at the cybercrime Manesar police station in Gurgaon.
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