AN INTERNATIONAL SCAMSTER/CASANOVA APPREHENDED

• ACCUSED USED SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES TO TRAP THE FEMALE VICTIMS.
• ACCUSED CHEATED/EXTORTED AN US CITIZEN OF 86,000 USD.  
• VICTIM WAS THREATENED OF BEING DEFAMED IN PUBLIC BY UPLOADING HER EXPLICIT PICTURES ON THE INTERNET.
• VICTIM WAS ALSO THREATENED OF FALSE IMPLICATION  UNDER CHARGES OF TERRORISM.
• ACCUSED WAS ALSO THREATENED OF ACID ATTACK.

INFORMATION:-

With the arrest of an Afghan born accused, Crime Branch has worked out a sensational case of cheating, sexual assault and extortion committed against an US citizen. The accused had received the cheated/extorted amount through Western Union Money Transfer in Afghanistan. With the arrest of the accused, case FIR No.14/2017 u/s 420/376/385/387/506 IPC, PS Crime Branch, Delhi has been solved.

ACCUSED ARRESTED:

1. Hameedullah (34 yrs) S/o Mohd. Akbar R/o Present address: Flat No.301, Kalypso Tower-1, Jaypee Wish Town, Sector-128, Noida, UP;

Permanent Address: Flat No.2, Floor-3, Balkh Sofa, Mazar Sharif, Afghanistan.

Office Address: Sunlight World Trade E-Commerce Company, 56/4419, 2nd floor, Gali No.56, Regharpura, Karol Bagh, Delhi.  

INCIDENT:-

An US citizen had approached Delhi Police with the complaint of cheating, sexual assault and extortion committed against her in India by an Afghan born accused. The complainant alleged that the accused had befriended her over Facebook posing as one MK Fahim. Accused further lured the complainant in the trap of love and affection and persuaded her for physical meetings. Accused won her confidence and promised life long friendship alongwith assurance of marriage and became physically intimate with her. Accused also prepared fake marriage document mentioning the complainant as her lawful wife and started exploiting her sexually during this period. During this, accused also took sexually explicit pictures and videos of the complainant. In the guise of love and affection, the accused also managed to cheat the complainant of 86,000 USD on various false pretexts. The accused got the cheated amount transferred to Afghanistan through Western Union Money Transfer and further received this amount in India through alternative channels. Somehow real identity of the accused was revealed to the complainant and she also found that accused has been mentioned as a scammer on website ‘who scammed you.com’. When she confronted the accused, he threatened her that he would inform FBI that the money transferred by her through Western Union was paid to some terrorists in Kabul. Accused also threatened her that he had clicked her indecent pics and videos and that he would upload them on the net. The complainant was also threatened of acid attack by the accused. On her complaint, a case vide FIR No.14/2017 u/s 420/376/385/387/506 IPC, dt. 02.2.2017, PS Crime Branch, Delhi was registered and investigation was taken up.

TEAM AND OPERATION:-

Investigation in the case was taken up by SER/Crime Branch. A team led by ACP Ishwar Singh, consisting of Insprs. Atul Tyagi, Kusum Dangi, SIs Nagender Singh, Sanjay Kumar, ASIs Virender, Brijpal, HCs Surender, Sandeep, Hemender and Ct. Rakesh was constituted under the supervision of DCP G. Ram Gopal Naik and under overall guidance of Addl.CP K.K.Vyas to nab the accused. The above team acted swiftly and apprehended accused Hameedullah near Hyatt hotel, R. K. Puram, Delhi on the same day with the recovery of mobile phones and the vehicle used in the commission of offences in the present case.

PROFILE:-

Accused Hameedullah was born in Kabul in January, 1981 and brought up at Mazar Sharif, Afghanistan. He holds an Afghan passport issued at Kabul. His family moved to UAE in 1997/98 due to hostile conditions in Afghanistan. He arrived in India in July 2011 on a tourist visa that was later converted to medical visa. Accused learnt ways of ensnaring ladies through social sites on internet and cheated money from them on various false pretexts. He was living a luxurious life by flaunting his earnings acquired through such cheatings.

MODUS OPERANDI:-

Accused Hameedullah possesses excellent communication skills and has command over several languages. He has made Facebook profiles with different names and approaches female users for friendship on social site. With his efforts, he wins confidence of female victims and entraps them in his love and affection. In the present case, he got closer to the complainant in similar manner and cohabitated with her inducing a belief of lawful marriage and cheated her of money in the form of US dollars. When the complainant came to know his reality, he threatened the complainant of dire consequences to cover up his acts.

RECOVERY:-

• Two Mobile phones (i-phones) used in offence.
• One laptop.
• Audi A3 car used in offence.
• Passport and Adoption Deed of the accused.
• Documents of property purchased by the accused out of cheated money.
• Jewellery (suspected to be purchased by accused out of cheated money)