Court rejects bail plea of online fraudster

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 13: Excise Magistrate Jammu Umesh Sharma today rejected the bail application of an alleged kingpin of online fraudsters and cyber scam.
While rejecting the bail application of accused Parmodh Devgan, the Excise Magistrate Jammu after hearing Adv Yogeshwar Sharma for the applicant and APP Yogesh Bamba for the UT, observed that accused is the kingpin of online fraudsters.
“The applicant/accused, in league with few other persons who are yet to be nabbed by the police, hatched a criminal conspiracy and approached the complainant by impersonating as representatives of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd and with fraudulent intention lured the complainant namely Nisar Ahmed to transfer an amount of Rs 19, 02,000 in different account numbers maintained in different Banks in the name of accused,” observed the court.
Court further observed that the accused has committed heinous offences against society and the said offences are required to be dealt with strong hands in order to discourage such antisocial activities. With these observations, the Court rejected the bail application.