Achi news desk-
Mumbai: South Region cyber police of Mumbai Crime Branch have busted a gang involved in illegal sale of Indian Premier League tickets through a fake website. Seven people have been arrested from Gujarat in connection with this operation. Officers are currently investigating the extent to which these people sold tickets through the fake web page link.
According to information received by the South Region Cyber Police, the complainant Anil Makhija (66), Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Big Tree Entertainment pvt LTD, had complained that an unknown person was selling IPL tickets by creating a fake web link of the name https://bookmyshow.cloud/sports/tata-ipl-2024.
Makhija in his complaint to the police said that the accused had created a fake web page link https://bookmyshow.cloud/sports/tata-ipl-2024 exactly posing as Big Tree Entertainment pvt LTD and looking at it, this appears to be a fake website which is the online web portal through which IPL tickets are being sold.
A police officer said that the company Big Tree Entertainment pvt LTD was being harmed by selling tickets through this fake web page, so the company complained about it to the police.
As soon as an FIR was registered at the South Region Cyber police station, the cyber police and the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) started investigating the case. CIU found that the fake web link was being operated from Surat in Gujarat. A team of CIU went to Surat and arrested the accused Khushal Rameshbhai Dobaria (24).
After Dobaria’s arrest, the police arrested six other accused. The arrested accused are Bhargav Kishorbhai Borad (22), Uttam Mansukhbhai Bhimani (21), Jasmin Girdharbhai Pithani (22), Himmat Rameshbhai Antla (35), Nikunj Bhupatbhai Khimani (27) and Arvindbhai Amritlal Chotalia (25).
A police officer said that the head of this gang is Khushal Rameshbhai Dobaria. The roles of the accused arrested in this case are as follows. Borad provided Dobaria with a mobile phone number to open a bank account and contact that account.
Uttam Mansukhbhai Bhimani developed the website. Accused Jasmin Girdharbhai Pithani took the bank details and mobile phone number of the main accused in this case, Dobariya, and gave it to the other accused.
Himmat Rameshbhai Antla, along with co-accused Nikunj Bhupatbhai Khimani and Arvindbhai Amritlal Chotalia, had withdrawn the money deposited in the bank account from the ATM.
A police officer said that the arrested accused was produced in court where the court sent them to police custody till April 3. The officer said that an investigation is being carried out to find out how many tickets correspond to’ those accused have been sold.
