Cybercrime in Nagpur - Cyber Blackmailer Couple Arrested in Pune for Extorting Money

A sensational case of cyber black mailing and cheating has come to light in the city.  In this case registered at Pratap Nagar police station, the police have arrested 3 including the main accused IT professional husband and wife from Pune. Arrested accused includes Shatrughan Singh Tangral and his wife Manjusha along with Rahul Satyendra Jha, all three are residents of Pune. It is alleged that he stole source code and client's data from the director of a company based in Nagpur in the last 5 years and blackmailed them with rigging of about 9 crores. Police have booked a total of 12 people under various sections of cybercrime including cheating and blackmailing threats etc. Probably this is the first case of cyber blackmailing in the city.

 Loot of 9 crores in 5 years

All the three accused were produced in the court on Friday from where they were sent to police custody for 4 days. The prosecution argued that, the accused are highly educated and are tricksters. If bail is granted, the evidence may be tampered. Accepting the argument, the court granted a 4 day PCR.

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What is the case?

Vinodkumar Tambi, a resident of Civil Lines, is the Director of Excellon Software Private Limited which is situated in IT Park. Started in 1999 with the name of e-Caliber India, Tambi had appointed Shatrughan Singh on the post of Web Developer till 31st March 2020 he reached at the post of Vice President Product & Engineering . During this period, he was given of salary upto Rs 60 lakh and Rs 40 lakh shares and bonus shares from the company.

 CP got the investigation done in CBI style

 Torn by blackmailing, Tambi saw the police as the last resort. He along with his lawyer Virat Mishra met the city police commissioner Dr. Bhushan Kumar Upadhyay and narrated his entire story. CP Dr. Upadhyay took the matter seriously and asked to register a case at Rana Pratap Nagar police station. The investigation was immediately handed over to EOW DCP Shweta Khedkar. The city police quickly collected evidence on the lines of the CBI and arrested Shatrughan Manjusha and Rahul from the area of Chaturshrungi Police Station in Pune and brought them to Nagpur.

 Fake company made with wife

 Excellon’s clients includes multinational companies. Being the Vice President, the work of the company was outsourced by Shatrughan to complete the work quickly. Shatrughan's wife Manjusha has worked in big companies like Persistent and TCS. During the job, both husband and wife together formed their own company named BizCloud and outsourced company were also joined, in which two UK IT professionals were also involved.  Together, Shatrughan and Manjusha together took the advantage of Excellon’s source code, software and data took illegal advantage of clients and accounts. Through BizCloud, they caused a loss of crores to Excellon.  Blackmailed Tambi, in the beginning of the year 2019, got suspicious when Shatrughan was asked about this, he along with Manjusha and Rahul started blackmailing him in the name of source code and client data.

Source code, Software and Data stolen

 The thief leaves a trail

• Worried about the confidentiality of his client's data, Tambi silently tolerated the blackmailing of Shatrughan and Manjusha and also paid the ransom amount.
• Just like every thief makes some or the other mistake, similarly Tambi also got one mistake of Shatrughan.
• With the help of many software and other IT experts, all the black exploits of Shatrughan, Manjusha and their other accomplices were recovered, during which they would also pay the ransom amount, so that Shatrughan and Manjusha do not suspect that evidence is being collected against him