Paytm blackmail case: Noida Police ramps up search for fourth accused
Sources said that accused Rohit Chomal has switched off his phone, which was being tracked.;
Noida: Two days after the Paytm data heist and the blackmailing case of CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma was busted, Noida Police is continuing raids in search of the fourth accused Rohit Chomal, who is currently untraceable. Sources said he switched off his phone, which was being tracked.
Police sources further said they have launched search operations across all his possible hideouts. "We are conducting raids to nab the accused. The forensic team will also look into the case in this regard," said the officer.
On Wednesday, cops scanned the data inside the pen drive and the hard disk recovered from the possession of the accused to get further clues in the case.
Senior officers, meanwhile, remained tight-lipped about other details.
Meanwhile, well placed police sources, on the condition of anonymity, said that a meeting took place on Wednesday in between senior police officers from Lucknow and investigators from Noida Police in the case. However, a senior officer of Noida Police claimed that the meeting was not related to the case but a different one. "Nothing related to the Paytm case was discussed in the meeting," the officer said.
On Monday, Noida Police arrested three persons, including Sonia Dhawan, the secretary of Vijay Shekhar Sharma.
She was the mastermind in the case and had been working with the company for nearly ten years, granting her access to the Paytm CEO's files.
She and her husband, Rupak Jain hatched a plan to steal confidential and financial information from Sharma.
Later, they roped in Devendra Kumar, a senior manager in the administration section of the company, who then approached his acquaintance Chomal, a resident of Kolkata, to call Sharma and blackmail him.
Police claimed they are investigating the case and so far they have come to know that the accused were stealing data for the last two years.
The investigating agency also suspects that if the accused had got the full extortion money, they might have invested the money in some kind of business.