Varanasi, UP:

Mafia don Brijesh Singh’s son Siddharth Singh was defrauded of Rs 11 lakh by a cyber swindler who promised to get him the dealership of a branded paint company, police said.

Cyber ​​Crime Police Station Inspector Vijay Narayan Mishra said that an FIR has been registered based on Singh’s complaint.

The FIR has been registered under IPC sections 417 (fraud), 420, 465 (forgery), 468, 471 (forgery) and 66D of the IT Act.

He said that the Cyber ​​​​Crime Cell has started investigating the matter.

In his complaint, Singh mentioned that after seeing an online advertisement for allotment of dealership of a leading paint company, he contacted Amit Singli, who claimed to be a director of the company, using the mobile number given in the advertisement in February. Had claimed.

Singli told Singh that to apply for the dealership, he would have to deposit Rs 11,14,539 in the account of Kalina (Mumbai) branch of a bank.

Singley also provided an account number and code required to transfer money.

Singh said that on March 9, he transferred the same amount from his bank account to the account number provided by Singli, who also issued a confirmation letter confirming receipt of the amount.

After this, Singley talked to him on a few occasions, but later his mobile number was found to be switched off.

Unable to contact him, Singh visited the company’s Mumbai office, where he was told that Amit Singley was neither a director nor an employee of the company, and that the company had not issued any advertisement for dealerships.

Following these developments, Singh became convinced that he had been duped by a fraudster, who had issued him fake documents to defraud him of over Rs 11 lakh, and he lodged a complaint.

Siddharth is the son of Brijesh Singh, who gained notoriety due to the war between his gang and that of his arch rival, mafia don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who died on March 28.

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