Kolkata: The Cyber Crime Cell of Kolkata Police has arrested a youth from Kakdwip for allegedly impersonating an Indian Navy officer and transferring money to one of his virtual wallets from a woman.
According to police, the youth identified as Rajan Sharma had created profiles on different social networking sites and used to introduce himself to several women as an Indian Navy officer. He also used a picture of him wearing uniform of the Indian Navy to convince the women.
Sources informed that recently Sharma got in touch with one Tanni Das, who was convinced seeing him in uniform. Later, she met with Sharma and they were about to get involved in a relationship.
Meanwhile, Das came to know that around Rs 4 lakh had been transferred to a money wallet and some other bank accounts from her account. Immediately, she contacted the police and narrated the incident.
While probing the matter, sleuths found out that Sharma had somehow managed to get hold of her smartphone, using which he transferred the money. He had also prepared some forged and fabricated documents and used the same for the purpose of cheating.
During the probe, sleuths got hold of Sharma's whereabouts and nabbed him from his house at Kakdwip in South 24-Parganas. During a search at his home, sleuths found three expensive mobile phones, one WiFi device, three sets of cufflink having the logos of Indian Air Force and Indian Army, three pieces of tiepins having the logos of Indian Air Force and Indian Army, a necktie having the logo of Indian Air Force, one board and a photograph, which were all seized.