Two more arrested by police in cyber fraud case probe

In connection with the Rs 1.5 crore cyber fraud involving Jaswinder Kaur and her husband Sohan Singh in November, the Sriganganagar Cyber Crime police have arrested two more suspects from Sonipat jail. The arrested individuals are Rohan Bhavsar of Bhopal and Saif Ali of Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh.

The police team had initially reached Bhopal on December 19, but just hours before their arrival, the Sonipat police apprehended the suspects and took them into custody. In Sonipat, a separate case of cyber fraud involving Rs 63 lakh has been registered, and the duo is being interrogated in relation to that case as well.

Earlier, on December 29, the police arrested Ishaan and Piyush from Bhopal in connection with the same cyber fraud case involving the elderly couple, Jaswinder Kaur and Sohan Singh of Chak 22-ML near Sriganganagar. Additionally, three youths from Jaipur—Mohit Soni, Kishan Singh Rajawat, and Ajay Prajapat—had been arrested for allegedly allowing the fraudsters to use their bank accounts to transfer the stolen money.

With the latest arrests, seven individuals have been apprehended so far, but the key suspect, the alleged kingpin of the racket, remains at large.

Jaswinder Kaur and Sohan Singh were “digitally arrested” by fraudsters on November 13 and 14, with Rs 1.5 crore being siphoned off from their bank accounts. After the arrest of the three suspects from Jaipur, the family of one of them deposited Rs 5 lakh into the complainant’s account as part of the recovery process, which remains the only partial recovery so far. Sohan Singh, who had recently sold immovable property, reported the incident to the police on November 16.

He explained that he was “digitally arrested” by callers pretending to be CBI officials. These callers falsely interrogated him about a large sum of money deposited into his bank accounts.

Sohan later revealed that he had been duped out of Rs 1.05 crore during the fraudulent “digital arrest” on November 13 and 14. It is still unclear how the fraudsters became aware of Sohan Singh’s property sale or obtained his phone numbers.