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Nandyal police arrested 2 persons for allegedly impersonating constabulary officers and extorting wealth from the nationalist online.
According to Allagadda Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) K. Pramod, the 2 accused were identified arsenic Akkapalli Chandrasekhar alias Chandrasekhar and Dasari Sandeep Kumar, some hailing from Mahabubnagar successful Telangana.
Police said that connected January 28, Chandrasekhar contacted complainant Karnati Pratap Reddy of Koilakuntla implicit telephone impersonating arsenic Sub-Inspector (SI) of Gadwal successful Telangana. Chandrasekhar threatened the complainant that the second had allegedly messaged a conductor’s wife, which led to a dispute, pursuing which the pistillate allegedly attempted termination and was undergoing infirmary treatment.
The accused past demanded ₹4 lakh arsenic colony and threatened to record a constabulary lawsuit if the magnitude was not paid. When the complainant requested to talk with the conductor, Dasari Sandeep Kumar, posing arsenic the husband, spoke with the complainant and collected ₹30,000 done PhonePe. Based connected Pratap Reddy’s complaint, a cybercrime lawsuit was registered astatine Koilakuntla constabulary station.
During investigation, it was revealed that the accused had allegedly cheated respective victims successful Andhra Pradesh and Telangana implicit the past 2 months, threatening and collecting amounts ranging from ₹50,000 to ₹3 lakh from each. So far, investigators person established that they collected astir ₹15 lakh by depositing wealth into their PhonePe and slope accounts.
According to the police, the accused targeted victims done Threads app, wherever they identified individuals commenting connected women’s photos and sharing their telephone numbers. They past contacted the victims, blackmailing them by impersonating arsenic constabulary officers and extorted wealth online.
The constabulary urged anyone cheated by these accused, either successful Andhra Pradesh oregon different states, to attack the nearest constabulary presumption and lodge a ailment astatine the earliest.
The DSP requested citizens to telephone the 1930 helpline instantly to study immoderate cybercrime oregon online fiscal fraud. By promptly reporting to 1930, the fraudulent transaction magnitude tin beryllium frozen immediately, and a transgression lawsuit volition beryllium registered.
