Jagran correspondent, Kanpur Dehat. The police have caught a swindler from Madhya Pradesh who cheated the accused by extracting the FIR from the police department's 'UP Cop App' and the mobile phone number of the village head from 'Meri Panchayat App' and contacting him. He had extorted Rs 10,000 from the young man by threatening him in the name of settlement of the electricity theft case, after which investigation led to his arrest. 1019 FIRs and 44 QR codes related to 62 districts including Lucknow, Prayagraj, Bareilly, Meerut, Agra, Jhansi, Varanasi, Ghaziabad, Noida, Gorakhpur have been found from him.
Of these, there are 14 FIRs related to Kanpur Dehat. He was sent to jail on Friday. Faridapur resident Ajay Kumar had written a report in Mangalpur police station on Thursday that on December 1, the electricity department team came to the village and filed a case of electricity theft against him and some villagers.
On December 7, a call came on his mobile phone and the caller said, I am Inspector, your dues are showing as Rs 1,99,590. If you want, we will settle it for 25 thousand. Then the accused came there and took Rs 10,000. Then called and said give 25 thousand.
Call recording also given to police
Its call recording was also given to the police. By laying siege on Thursday night, the police arrested the accused Nigam Yadav, resident of Goa Prithvipur, Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh. Rs 10,000, two mobile phones, several SIM cards and a bike were recovered from him.
The accused told that after downloading the FIR from the UP Cop app in the mobile phone and taking a screenshot, he used to download the Meri Panchayat app. Then he would call the sheriff's number and pretend to be an inspector or an officer and take the numbers of the named persons.
He used to extort money by luring the case to end the case. SP Shraddha Narendra Pandey said that if someone asks for money by threatening or removing the name from the case, then understand that they are being cheated and inform the police.