Satish becomes Neha on Insta, dupes man of 4.52L

Jaipur: The Sanganer police Sunday arrested a 20-year-old man who posed as a woman on Instagram to dupe a man of Rs 4.52 lakh.
DCP (East) Rajvee Pachar said on Sunday that a complainant had filed an FIR at the Sanganer police station that he had befriended a woman named “Neha Rajput” on the popular social media platform Instagram.
The man in his FIR to the police alleged that the woman tricked him into paying Rs 4.52 lakh. She also reportedly promised to marry him. Deeply in love with Neha, the man readily paid her the money she asked for.
The police then filed an FIR under IPC Section 420 (Cheating) and searched for Neha Thakur. The subsequent revelation, however, stunned even cops.
“The technical investigation revealed that the Instagram account was fake. There was no Neha Thakur, but one Satish Bairwa was running the entire show behind a phoney account,” said a police official.
The city police then set up a special team to keep an eye on the accused. The team Sunday nabbed him and took him to the police station.
Jaipur police suspect the accused had set up multiple fake accounts to dupe men on social media. “The accused had downloaded photographs of different women from their Insta profiles. After stealing photos from verified profiles, he set up Insta accounts with different names, including one by Neha Thakur,” said the official.