Court rejects bail of Nigerian charged for criminal conspiracy

Kanpur: Additional district and sessions judge Parmeshwar Prasad on Tuesday rejected the bail application of a Nigerian national, Tru, who was arrested by the police for cheating and criminal conspiracy.
The report of cheating was lodged by Deep Mandal at the Jajmau police station.
According to ADGC Shiv Bhagwan Goswami, complainant, Deep Mandal had received an email from magnum recruitment01@gmail.com for providing a job and asking him to contact recruiters 01 @ gmail.com.
When Mandal contacted on the given mail ID he was asked to send a copy of his passport and a photo at hr@exxonmobinc recruiters 01@gmail.com.When he complied with the directions lulu L Johnson contacted him and asked to send Rs 12,850 in the bank of account of Gaurav in in the ICICI Bank.
On June 20, 2021 Mandal received a WhatsApp message from one Mark Darlington who claimed himself as an employee of the UK Embassy. He from time to time directed him to deposit money in different bank accounts and collected his original passport. IN this way the accused collected Rs 44,930 from the complainant.
The complainant on realizing that he had been cheated by a gang and the accused, he lodged a report.
The defence counsel pleaded that the accused was a foreigner who has been implicated in the case as nothing had been recovered from his possession, therefore, he should be granted bail.
Strongly opposing his bail, the ADGC argued that during the investigation a mobile SIM was recovered from his possession which had been used asking the complainant to submit his passport and a photo. The accused was not alone but a well-organized gang was involved in the crime. Besides a laptop of the Acer Company, 8 mobile phones, 4 G devices, 6 credit cards, four belonging to the foreign bank, were recovered from his possession, the prosecution argued .
The court in its order observed that on perusal of the file it became clear that one of the SIMS that was recovered from the possession of the accused had been used in asking for the passport and photo of the complainant. It was cyber cheating.
“Besides the accused, there is a possibility of involvement of other foreigners in the crime. Since investigation is going on, therefore, there is no reason to grant him bail hence his bail application is being dismissed”, the court stated in its order.