6 hackers arrested who hack Facebook account of Punjab Chief Secretary

Chandigarh The Cyber ​​Crime Cell of Punjab Police, taking major action, has arrested 6 hackers from Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh who hacked the Facebook account of Suresh Kumar, Chief Principal Secretary of Chief Minister Punjab.
The arrested persons are identified as Narinder Singh, Gulab Singh, Bhag Singh and Raman from Rajasthan while Dinesh and Rahul are from Madhya Pradesh. A convict is still absconding. The convicts used to run gangs in the states of Punjab, Haryana and U.P.
Police has also sent several ATMs from the culprits. Card, cash, SIM and a POS (point of sale) machine are recovered.
Giving more information in this regard, the Director of Bureau of Investigation-cum-ADGP Arpit Shukla said that a Facebook account was created on behalf of the said convicts, named Suresh Nangia, Chief Principal Secretary / Chief Minister, Punjab. He used this rigging account to rig himself to demand money from the people by calling himself Chief Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister.
He said that after getting information about the hack of Facebook account of Chief Principal Secretary Suresh Kumar, the DGP of the state Dinkar Gupta immediately formed three teams led by Inspector Gurcharan Singh, Sub-Inspector Alamjit Singh Sidhu and Sub-Inspector Gaganpreet Singh under the supervision of Assistant Inspector General, State Cyber ​​Crime Indraveer Singh and these teams were investigated by U.P. , Sailed for Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. The entire operation was monitored by AIG (state) Inderbir Singh of Cyber ​​Crime and DSP of Cyber ​​Crime. (State) Samarpal Singh. He said that Sub-Inspector Vikas Bhatia also played an important role in this action.
Mr. Shukla said that the arrest of six cyber criminals will help in solving other cases related to Facebook hacking, OLX / bank fraud and other cyber related offenses.
He said that investigation has revealed that the convicts Dinesh and Rahul, who are from Madhya Pradesh, are the nephews of Madan Lal who had sent their identity cards using Madan Lal’s identity card to open a bank account in his (Madan Lal) name. So that the money received in fraud can be recovered through this account. He said that the cyber criminals of Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Dili and Rajasthan are connected with each other and carry out their activities in different states.
The director of the Bureau of Investigation further stated that the convicts carried out fraudulent proceedings in three different states Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. In addition, the police team located the convict Narinder Singh, in whose account illegal money was deposited and he was arrested from Bharatpur in Rajasthan.
Shukla said, “Further investigation led to the arrest of another member of the gang, Gulab Singh, which revealed a large racket in the area where renting ATM cards from different people or opening bank accounts through fake identity cards Mr. Shukla further said that these bank accounts were used to keep different scams such as OLX scam, Facebook scam, Sachs scam and any kind of illegal money or fraudulent money. Was.
He said that the connivance of some bank employees in the entire racket also cannot be denied.
He said that further investigation into the case caught Bhag Singh and Raman Kumar, who were the main accused in this racket for money laundering as they used to provide ATM cards, SIM cards and identity cards to fraudsters and They accounted for 10 percent of the money received from fraudulent services for their services.
A case has been registered against the culprits under Section 170, 419, 420, 506, 120-B of the IPC and Section 66, 66-C, 66-D of the IT Act in the Thana State Cyber ​​Crime.