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Judicial magistrate cheated of Rs 92,000 while booking hotel in Odisha’s Puri

UncategorizedJudicial magistrate cheated of Rs 92,000 while booking hotel in Odisha's Puri
West Bengal police sources said that the arrested is identified as Prem Singh.

West Bengal police sources mentioned that the arrested is recognized as Prem Singh.

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Kolkata: A person accused of defrauding a judicial Justice of the Peace of West Bengal has been arrested from Rajasthan, police mentioned on Saturday.

West Bengal police sources mentioned that the arrested is idenitified as Prem Singh. After arresting Prem Singh from Rajasthan, he has been dropped at Kolkata on transit remand, the police sources mentioned.

In October 2022, judicial Justice of the Peace Somshubra Ghosal had filed a grievance on the cyber crime police station underneath Bidhannagar Metropolis Police of being cheated of Rs 92,000 whereas making an attempt to make an internet reserving at a five-star lodge at Puri in Odisha for trip together with his household.

In his grievance, Ghoshal mentioned that whereas making his try for on-line reserving, he obtained a name the place one individual claiming to be calling from the reserving workplace of the mentioned five-star guided him to go to the lodge web site and straight e-book the room for his vacation there. Thereafter, the caller supplied him with the main points of a checking account for switch of the advance quantity of Rs 92,000.

Ghosal did accordingly and simply a few days earlier than leaving for his trip, he known as up the actual five-star lodge to substantiate his reserving with them. Nonetheless, to his shock the lodge authorities knowledgeable him that there isn’t any reserving in his title.

Understanding that he had been defrauded within the course of, the mentioned judicial Justice of the Peace instantly contacted the cyber crime police station and their cops investigating the matter.

Monitoring the main points of the checking account the place the quantity of Rs 92,000 was transferred, the sleuths reached Rajasthan and at last nabbed the accused from there.

The sleuths got here to know that he was part of a racket who used to defraud folks by opening a pretend web site of the mentioned lodge. The sleuths have deactivated that web site and are at present interrogating Prem Singh to learn about his different associates within the forgery racket.

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