PATNA: The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of state police has traced the accused of creating a fake Facebook profile of DG (training) Alok Raj and trying to dupe those on his friends’ list by asking them to transfer money via digital wallets.
ADG (EOU) Nayyar Hasnain Khan on Wednesday said the EOU is in touch with Uttar Pradesh police to nab him. “The exact location of the person in UP cannot be disclosed from investigation point of view. Necessary action would be taken against him soon,” Khan said.
The ADG said several such cases had surfaced in the recent past. “EOU would take the required action in order to curb this kind of cybercrime,” he added.
At least three incidents have been reported since November last year about creating fake FB profile of Raj, a 1989-batch Bihar cadre IPS officer. Raj had lodged an FIR with Kankarbagh police station on November 14 last year after the first incident came to his knowledge.
The latest incident took place hardly two days back where another fake profile of Raj was created with the same modus operandi, but friends alerted him about it and the EOU was informed.
EOU is the nodal agency to deal with cybercrime in the state.
EOU sources said a report was sent to Patna SSP Upendra Kumar Sharma on Wednesday about three fake profiles of Raj. Two of them were created from two different districts in Uttar Pradesh while one was created from Gujarat. “This report was sent in connection with the FIR registered in November last year,” a source said.
Sources said the police had sent a fresh letter to the Facebook and to the company which owns the digital wallet app for details of the person involved in the crime.
Besides common people, several bureaucrats and even a judicial officer in state have fallen prey to such cybercrime.