Three special police teams tackle cyber fraud in south Mumbai – Times of India

MUMBAI: To tackle cyber fraud, additional police commissioner Satya Narayan Chaudhry formed three special teams dedicated to detect cyber crime in the three zones of south Mumbai. The teams are yielding results-seven people caught including a Nigerian from Delhi, a man caught for sending obscene videos to a homemaker in Wadala.
“Each team is headed by a police inspector rank officer and assisted by staff. The officials heading these teams have knowledge about detecting such cases, interest in cyber cases and are dedicated to work on cracking difficult cases,” said Chaudhry.
The teams are responsible for getting in touch with police stations in their respective zones, review important and complicated cases and assist police teams. When complicated cases are reported in a police station, the special team visits the concerned station and helps solve the case. On November 2, special team officers along with the Dongri police staff nabbed a gang of seven people from New Delhi who had cheated a city businessman of Rs 39 lakh. One of the accused had posed as a captain in the US army and told the complainant she wanted to start a shopping mall in Mumbai as a partner with the businessman. She asked him to deposit money in various bank accounts.
L T Marg police registered over 70 cyber cheating cases during the lockdown. There were more than 200 cases registered in zone 2 (Pydhonie, Malabar Hill, Gamdevi, D B Marg, L T Marg, V P Road police stations). Most of these have been detected.