Maharashtra: Father-son duo held for killing 70-year-old man in Nagpur

A fatherson duo has been nabbed for allegedly killing a 70yearold man over an old dispute in Ajni area of Nagpur city in Maharashtra police told news agency PTI on SaturdayThe accused Ramesh Verma 48 and his son Sumit 24 were not on good terms with two sons of the deceased man In December 2017 a case was registered against the sons of the deceased man at Ajni Police Station reported PTIAccording to PTI on Friday night Ramesh Verma told one of the sons that he can make a witness turn hostile if given money An argument broke out between them After some time Ramesh and his son returned and pelted stones and bricks at the house of the victims When the old man came out he was attacked with a wooden stick causing him serious head injuries They also attacked the sons of the old man before fleeingThe seriously injured man died in a hospital Police registered a case of murder under the Indian Penal CodeMeanwhile the Nagpur cyber police probing a task fraud have unearthed a transaction involving the transfer of crime money to a Chinese individual through cryptocurrency and arrested six men from Mumbai Gujarat and Rajasthan a senior official told PTIThree of the six arrested men hail from Mumbai and suburban Nallasopara and the others from Rajasthan and Surat in GujaratThe police seized 19 debit and credit cards nine mobile phones a laptop and cash worth Rs 787 lakh Additionally the police have frozen Rs 3726 lakh from the bank accounts of the accused individuals the official told PTI on SaturdayOn the modus operandi of such a crime Deputy Commissioner of Police cyber Archit Chandak at a press conference said fraudsters employ different teams to handle various tasks including an IT team to monitor transactions and a banking team to facilitate their activitiesThe fraud involves promise of money for performing tasks like liking videos and giving reviews for products Later the fraudsters lure the targeted individuals with prepaid tasks They keep on increasing the fees and the victims keep paying the amounts expecting higher returns till they realise they have been cheatedThe task fraud involves a systematic process consisting of three key steps trust building laying trap and treachery Cyber criminals first entice individuals with tasks promising lucrative monetary rewards In the second stage they set a trap wherein they win the victims trust over a month and persuade them with prospects of an elevated profile in exchange for various fees This ultimately leads to the third step treachery wherein the accused absconds with the money and cuts off all communication with the victim Chandak was quoted as saying by PTIHe said the modus operandi resembles the operations of corporate entitiesThese criminals employ different teams to handle various tasks including an IT team to monitor transactions and a banking team to facilitate their activities the official saidWhile conducting probe into a complaint lodged by a Nagpurbased chemical engineer the police got a breakthrough when they traced the money trail to Meet Vyas one of the arrested men who had transferred the funds to a Chinese individual using cryptocurrency Chandak saidThe police arrested Akash Tiwari and Ravi Verma from Mumbai Santosh Mishra from Nallasopara Meet Vyas from Surat and Ankit Tater and Arvind Sharma from RajasthanFurther investigation is underway to bust the entire criminal network and any potential international connections a police official told PTIWith inputs from PTI