Arrest Made in The Fake Website Case of Cheating Under The Guise Of Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Yojna
A team of
officers of Crime Branch led by ACP K P S Malhotra and consisting of Inspr.
Kulbir Singh, SIs Ritesh Kumar, Neeraj Kumar, Mandeep, Vishal Choudhary,
Kuldeep, ASI Manoj, HCs Jai Parkash, Satish, Dinesh, Cts Lalaram, Vivek Tomar,
Shailender, Ravi and Sachin under the supervision of DCP Bhisham Singh and over
all supervision of Addl.CP Ashok Chand, has arrested second accused Snehangshu
Jana (aged 31 yrs) s/o Radhakanta Jana r/o 230/3, Sharat Chatterjee Road,
Howrah, West Bengal who was the technical assistant of the kingpin Sudipta
Chatterjee and had created of the fake websites which were being projected as government
websites.
INFORMATION
& OPERATION:
Information
was received that there is a fake website under the name of ‘Pradhan Mantri
Adarsh Yojna’ that is offering loans for different projects and schemes with
the aim of cheating the prospective beneficiaries on the pretext of providing
them loans for different projects and schemes. The Crime Branch officials
browsed the internet and found the fake website on the internet. On the basis of the URL www.pmay-gov.in , details of the server were
obtained. It was found that the server
was located in USA. This confirmed that
this website is a fake and not hosted by the Government of India. A case under
the appropriate sections of law was registered.
The
mastermind Sudipta Chatterjee (aged 43 yrs) S/o Sh Ram Chandra Chatterjee, R/o
41/8, Thakur Ram Krishna Lane, Howrah-4, West Bengal was apprehended by Crime
Branch from Howrah on 17.01.15 and 20 mobile phones, hard disk, internet
dongles, cheques related to 43 accounts, fake project reports and 16 Government
office rubber stamps along with other incriminating evidence were
recovered.
The
mastermind is Sudipta Chatterjee in this case and he was subjected to intensive
interrogation and the name of the person who provided the technical help in
creating and hosting the fake website surfaced as Snehangshu Jana.
During
further investigation, his close associate Snehangshu Jana has been arrested.
He has got a degree of B.Sc.(IT) and proficiency in multimedia especially
website hosting. He came in contact with the mastermind in the year 2013 and
they created and hosted the website with the domain name bharat-sarkar.in.
He was employed by Sudipta Chatterjee to provide the technical assistance and
to manage the data of the applicants, who had applied for loans for various
schemes and projects after getting influenced with their fake promises. Snehangshu
Jana had created other websites by the name of govindia.in, CGTMSE-govt.in and CGTMSE-gov.in. As per his disclosure,
he was paid Rs. 50,000/- per month for the technical tasks being done by
him. Currently, he had established his
separate business in IT security services.
He also
disclosed that earlier in the year 2012, he was working in Siliguri with some
IT based company and was drawing pay of Rs. 18,000/- per month. His elder
sister-in-law, a divorcee, came in contact with Sudipta Chatterjee through some
matrimonial site and they were in touch with each other through
telecommunication means. Sudipta Chatterjee proposed her to shift the base from
Siliguri to Howrah, so that he may help him in providing a better job. He had also
employed Snehangshu’s sister and other relatives as telecallers. With the
income earned from this, he was able to buy a flat in Howrah and live a lavish
lifestyle.
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