City Cyber Police return Rs. 14.16 lakh that was swindled from victims
Mysore/Mysuru: The Cyber, Economic and Narcotics (CEN) Crime Police Station in Mysuru city has solved 16 cases of online fraud from Jan. 25 till date and have returned Rs. 14,16,353 that was swindled from hapless victims.
The Quick Response Team (QRT) of the CEN Police managed to recover the money from swindlers’ bank accounts with the help of bank managers, nodal officers and core banking teams.
Most of the bank accounts that were opened for fraud purposes were outside Karnataka and it is due to the sheer efforts of the QRT that the victims were able to get back their money. The banks too acted in a prompt manner and froze the accounts of fraudsters. Mounting cases of online frauds have made the City Police to constitute QRT to help streamline operations. Such arrangements are seeing results and are helping the Police to solve cases quickly. The QRT is nothing but a re-skilled in-house team, which increasingly comprises engineering graduates, some of whom are specialists in computer, communications and are also tech-savvy.
The team directly functions under the supervision of City Police Commissioner Dr. Chandragupta and DCP (Law and Order) Pradeep Gunti. The CEN Police Station, located in City Police Commissioner’s Office at Nazarbad, is headed by Inspector N. Jayakumar, Sub-Inspectors Anil Kumar, M.L. Siddesh, Constables Shivakumar, Sunil, Lavanya and Divya.
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