Lawyer held in GR NOIDA for involvement in Rs.1.7-cr fraud
Gurugram, May 30 -- A lawyer was arrested from Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday for his alleged involvement in cheating an elderly man of Rs.1.7 crore last year, police said on Thursday.
Investigators identified the accused as Anand Kumar Shukla, 35, a resident of Sector 10 in Greater Noida. He practices law in the Delhi high court, police said.
According to the police, he had provided his bank account to cyber fraudsters and had received Rs.18 lakh in it out of Rs.1.7 crore duped from the victim. They said that Shukla was supposed to get 3% commission of the credited amount.
The victim, 82, is a former bureaucrat. Police said that the victim had received a WhatsApp call from the cyber fraudsters impersonating police officials who had threatened to implicate him in a money laundering case earlier this month.
Priyanshu Dewan, assistant commissioner of police (cybercrime), said that Shukla was produced before a city court on Thursday and was taken on four-day police remand for detailed interrogation....
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