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Two persons were arrested successful 2 abstracted concern fraud cases detected by the cyber transgression helping of the Malkajgiri Police during the week betwixt May 3 and May 9.
In the archetypal case, Roumya Ranjan Panda, a nonmigratory of Bishnupur successful Baleswar territory of Odisha, was arrested for supplying slope accounts connected a committee ground to cyber fraudsters for facilitating the transportation of cheated money.
The lawsuit dates backmost to September 2025, erstwhile the complainant was deceived done a Bitcoin trading scam connected hodlhodl.com and WhatsApp aft fraudsters promised precocious returns and gradually induced investments. Investigators said the unfortunate initially mislaid ₹9.28 lakh.
In March 2026, different accused posing arsenic “Vishal” from Odisha accessed the complainant’s Gmail account, closed his cybercrime ailment utilizing forged documents, and on with different impersonator identified arsenic “Roumya Ranjan Panda”, extorted much wealth done fake FIRs, tribunal orders and WhatsApp groups. Police said the complainant yet mislaid ₹34.48 lakh aft recovering lone ₹9.71 lakh.
In the 2nd case, Autukuri Santosh Kumar, from Guntur territory successful Andhra Pradesh was arrested.
The complainant successful the lawsuit was added to WhatsApp groups named “Stock Market Think Tank-IV” and “Free Service Group-1160”, operated by a idiosyncratic identified arsenic Rakshita Ved utilizing aggregate numbers. Administrators of the groups shared banal marketplace tips and fake nett screenshots to summation the victim’s assurance earlier persuading him to instal the “FISD PRO” exertion and implicit KYC formalities. Investigators said the unfortunate was initially allowed a tiny withdrawal to physique spot and aboriginal invested ₹41.62 lakh, portion the app falsely displayed profits of ₹3.76 crore. When the complainant attempted to retreat ₹20 lakh, lawsuit enactment demanded a 20% commission, revealing the fraud. The unfortunate ended up losing ₹41.56 lakh and recovered lone ₹6,000.
The cyber transgression constabulary said refunds amounting to ₹4.31 lakh were processed done tribunal orders and returned to victims during the week. Officials besides cautioned citizens against concern offers received done WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram and advised the nationalist not to download oregon put done chartless applications oregon websites.
