Duping many for a lavish life lands Bollywood scriptwriter in cop net

A 28year old struggling Bollywood scriptwriter has landed in police custody for cheating a number of people over the past couple of months using a bulk messaging service The initial probe has revealed that the accused duped a number of jewellers and a travel company as well just to lead a lavish life and impress his girlfriend a Youtuber However a complaint filed by the company led to his arrest on MondayInitial investigation has revealed that Sahu cheated a number of people during the lockdown Representation PicIstockAn officer from Oshiwara police station said that accused Shubham Pitambar Sahu a Mulund resident had opened an account on Digital India Technology DIT in April to cheat people Sahu was arrested after a travel company filed a complaint against him and an FIR was registered on November 18 In her complaint the victim said A person Sahu called me up after finding my number on a search engine and requested for two air tickets to Jaipur After checking for the availability of the tickets I sent him a quotation of 20000 He asked for my bank account details and soon after I received a message saying that my account has been credited with 20000 through NEFT The same evening he called me again and requested to book a room at a fivestar hotel in Jaipur for seven days After the booking was done I received another message saying that my account has been credited with 13700 the victim addedAlso ReadCelebrity chef Kelvin Cheung arrested in cheating caseHowever when she contacted her bank she got to know that no money had been credited to her account She immediately called up the accused An officer said In a bid to prove himself correct the accused transferred 100 to her bank account tampered with the message by changing the digits just to show that he had sent 33700 to the victimrsquos account The victim then filed a complaint and an FIR was registered under relevant sections of IPC and IT Act at Oshiwara police stationWe arrested Sahu from Adarsh Nagar area of Andheri West He is being interrogated said another officerInvestigation has revealed that Sahu created an account on DIT with the name Dreams of Aryan The cops have come across 50 pages of his DIT account logs which they are currently studying to know how many people he cheated There are more than 2000 entries of messages in the last three months the officer saidTo make his victims believe that money was being credited to their accounts Sahu would manipulate the sender ID before sending the messages The content of the message and the sender ID would look like an autogenerated message from the bank said a police officer adding We are probing how he managed to manipulate the sender ID of banks to cheat people On being contacted founder of DIT Pramod Saggar said It is a bulk messaging application If you have Distributed Ledger Technology DLT registration number with the TRAI then you can create a unique sender ID and send messages using our platform where you first need to have an account DLT is a new regulation from TRAI which has been introduced to track down those who send offensive messages in bulk Though the new rule was introduced in May it was strictly executed from December 1Keep scrolling to read more newsCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our channel middayinfomedialtd and stay updated with the latest news