A retired decide of the Karnataka Excessive Courtroom has filed a police criticism after he was allegedly focused by cyber fraudsters, who posed as officers of the Knowledge Safety Board of India, and prompt he was concerned in unlawful actions.
The retired HC decide, Justice Ok N Phaneendra, 67, who’s presently the Deputy Lokayukta within the Karnataka Lokayukta, filed the police criticism on July 9. In accordance with his police criticism, he obtained calls from two individuals who referred to as themselves Deepak Kumar Sharma and Rahul Kumar Sharma within the afternoon of July 9.
The caller, who recognized himself as Deepak Sharma, advised the decide that he was a senior authorized guide for the Knowledge Safety Board of India, and Rahul Sharma claimed to be a junior authorized guide. The callers advised Justice Phaneendra that his Aadhaar card was linked to his cell phone quantity, which they stated was being utilized in unlawful actions.
The retired decide advised the callers to ship him an official authorized discover. He later approached the Central CEN Police Station in Bengaluru, and filed a criticism.
The Bengaluru police have stated that cyber criminals have been adopting varied techniques to focus on victims for extortion by claiming to be officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), police, Narcotics Bureau, and officers of GST.
The cyber criminals instil worry of arrest in gullible victims by suggesting their involvement in crimes like terrorism, drug peddling and different actions. A number of victims have misplaced their life financial savings in these crimes, the place the accused are not often traced and the stolen cash is misplaced within the layers of laundering by the criminals.
In March this yr, an aged couple from a village in Karnataka’s Belagavi district allegedly died by suicide after shedding roughly Rs 50 lakh to a cyber fraud that was just like the one tried on Justice Phaneendra.
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Knowledge from the Nationwide Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) for 2024, as quoted in a Karnataka CID police research on mule accounts in cyber crimes, signifies that Rs 2,915 crore was misplaced in 6.11 lakh cyber crimes in Karnataka. The losses to cyber crimes in Karnataka are reported to have elevated fourfold in 2024, from Rs 660 crore reported in 2023.