“A twenty one year young boy has knocked at the portals of this Court for bail. He is involved in cybercrime. The manner in which the crime has been committed shows the devilish master mindedness, cool thinking, tricks adopted, organised effort and timely execution of plan of the offenders. The intelligence and advanced type of knowledge on cyber seems to have been utilised in a wrong way. Sitting somewhere far from the victim and without having any direct physical access to her, the cybercriminal has caused unimaginable harm to her with touches of his fingers on the computer and stolen more than what an ordinary criminal could have done with gun. The victim of the organised crime appears to be an innocent lady fell into the trap of evil design. With the temptation of getting foreign gifts, she acted like a brainless toy in the hands of the criminals till she realised one day that she had been deceived on a mistaken impression.
The law was set into motion with the presentation of a first information report by Sukanti Mohanty at Cyber Crime Police Station of C.I.D., C.B., Cuttack on the accusation that she had become a victim of organized cybercrime and had paid a sum of Rs.17,03,390/- to different persons through their bank accounts which were provided to her through e-mail/sms /whatsapp. She alleged against one person identifying himself as Frank Young on facebook had sent her a friend’s request which she accepted. The accused informed the informant that he had sent her some gifts which were held up in Delhi from where she should collect the gifts. The informant was asked through a number of calls and e-mails for money on various pretexts i.e. remittance, foreign exchange, transfer etc. The phone calls and sms were received from different numbers and the people who identified themselves as Frank, Marc, security personnel, R.B.I. officials and Airport officials etc. advised and convinced the informant to deposit money in different bank accounts provided by them. The money was paid in four different bank accounts of four different persons by the informant totalling to Rs.17,03,390/-.”
Case Referred: Obinna Nicodemus Enweka @ Obina Icodemus
-Versus-
State of Orissa
