Cyber fraud case: Patan court rejects bail plea of 3 accused

The Patan Sessions Court has rejected the bail plea of three accused involved in online frauds such as cyber crime and digital arrest. These accused had given their bank accounts to cyber fraudsters to use in the lure of commission. Sessions Judge H.S. The court of Mulia has taken this decision keeping in mind the seriousness of the crime and financial transactions worth crores of rupees. Vishal, an accused in an offence registered at Patan Cyber Crime Police Station, had applied for bail after the chargesheet was submitted. During the police investigation, it was revealed that Vishal had given his bank account kit to cyber fraudsters under the lure of commission. An amount of Rs 1,74,45,074 was deposited in his account, out of which Rs 1,73,85,046.73 was withdrawn. A total of 30 complaints and petitions have been lodged against this account from different states of the country. Investigations have also revealed that a total of more than Rs 16.65 crore was involved in suspicious financial transactions in Mull accounts by this group of accused. Another accused Yakub alias Munno, who was involved in the same crime at Patan Cyber Crime Police Station, also applied for bail. Yakub also gave his bank account kit to cyber fraudsters on the pretext of commission. A total of Rs 1,87,41,868 was deposited in his bank account of cyber fraud and out of this, Rs 1,87,41,668.07 was withdrawn. A total of 12 complaints have been lodged against this bank account from across the country. The court noted that even after the chargesheet, the evidence against the accused is intact and bail cannot be granted as the crime is of a serious nature. The accused Manthan Vinodji Thakor had filed a bail application for cheating by sending a digital arrest and APK link registered at Chanasma police station. In this case, the accused Manthan Thakor had rented the bank accounts of 3 persons from another accused Jagdishji and he himself got more commission and allowed them to be used by other cyber fraudsters. In these 3 accounts obtained by Manthan, only Rs. Transactions of Rs. 91,95,777 were made and the amount was disbursed. A total of Rs. Illegal financial transactions of Rs. 7,16,14,895 have been carried out by signing blank cheques and receiving kits. Illegal financial transactions of Rs. 7,16,14,895 have been carried out by the government prosecutor. Strongly opposing the bail applications, Thakkar submitted that innocent people across the country are being robbed by threatening and intimidating them by sending digital arrests or online links. In such crimes, the Mule account holders who give their bank accounts or get accounts from rent play an active role in such crimes. Sessions Judge H.S. Mulia, after taking into consideration the arguments of both the parties and the affidavit of the investigating officer, made it clear in the order that there is evidence of suspicious and illegal financial transactions worth crores of rupees against the accused. In view of the active role of the accused at the primary and chargesheet stage in serious economic offences like cyber fraud, the court cannot exercise its discretionary power to grant bail. As a result, the bail applications of all the three accused have been rejected.