Cyber crime police arrested cheating and extortion case accused SidhanthRaj (30) a Manager Operations in Vee Technologies, Vasnathnagar Bangalore Resident of Manipushpam, 4th cross, Nagappa block, Srirampura, Bangalore by demanding money showing seminude photos of the complainant and making money transaction with Debit/Credit Cards, transferring the credited amount from the account of the complainant without her knowledge.
On May 21, 2014 a woman from Gachibowli lodged a complaint stating that, one Sidhanth Raj Shrivastava, took advantage of friendship and made false marriage proposal, took her seminude photographs and started blackmailing her by showing the photographs to her stating that all her photographs were captured by a networking person at his office and demanded Rs. 5 lakhs to destroy the photographs. Further he forced her to take personal loan of Rs.3,90, 000 from CITI Bank, the same was transferred to his wife’s account. The accused also used two Credit Cards of the complainant made shopping and withdrawn the money to the tune of Rs. 1.5 lakhs after black mailing. The accused further started harassing the complainant for more money. All his activities caused her huge financial loss and lot of mental tension and she got vexed up and lodged a complaint.
Cyber Crime PS Cyberabad registered a case under section 384, 420 IPC & 66(A) I.T. Act-2000, investigated into. During the course of investigation it is came into the light.
Earlier the complainant and the accused worked together at a private firm at Balanagar, Hyderabad from 2010 to 13. After that the accused Sidhanth Raj moved to Bangalore and joined in Vee Technologies as Manager, operations. The complainant used to contact him over face book, cell phone and they became very close and decided to marry each other and the accused promised her to marry. As requested by the accused, in the month of February the complainant had been to Bangalore and stayed with the accused. During her visit, the accused managed to collect credit card of the complainant and misused it to a tune of Rs. 1,50,000 Further the accused took private photographs of the complainant without her consent while she was making video chit chat. Taking advantage of these photographs of the complainant the accused started blackmailing her saying that some photos of the complainant were captured by a networking administrator, who is demanding Rs. 5 lakhs for destroying photographs. The accused put her into mental tension, managed to get personal loan of Rs 3,85,446/-on the plea to solve the problem with the persons who are blackmailing and transferred the amount through online to the account of his wife Neethu Jha. The complainant was kept in dark by the accused that he is already married and living with his wife. After receiving money of more than Rs. 6 lakhs, the accused continued blackmailing her for more money.
After collecting sufficient evidence of the accused a team lead by S. Raja Shekar Reddy, Inspector along with Sub Inspectors D. Ashih Reddy and K. Srinivas visited Bangalore on June 13, 2014 and apprehended the accused at his residence, Srirampura, Bangalore and brought him to Hyderabad and produced before the concerned Court on June 14, 2014 now he is lodged in Central Prison, Cherlapally.
The case is investigated by S. Rajasekhar Reddy, Inspector along with Sub-Inspectors K.Srinivas, and D. Ashish Reddy, under supervision of D. Pratap Reddy ACP Cyber Crime PS, Cyberabad under close supervision of Additional DCP (Crimes) G. Janaki Sharmila. (INN)