● Accused Akhil Ajayan Aged 26 years befriended his victims on Facebook
● A former petrol pump manager, the accused also made a lot of money using a Public
Sector Petroleum Company’s loyalty program called DriveTrack
● Wanted the extorted money to settle in Brazil with his new girlfriend and to pay off
Debts/Credit Card bills
BRIEF FCACTS OF THE CASE
CyPAD, the Cyber Crime Unit of Delhi Police received a complaint from a
distressed father who alleged that one person who was his daughter’s Facebook
friend, had sent him and his family members morphed, sexually explicit photos and
videos of his daughter and threatened that if he didn’t pay up Rs. 8 Lakh, the
accused would share the offensive photos and videos with the complainant’s
friends and other relatives through WhatsApp and Social Media. He further
threatened to sell these videos to porn website unless the money was coughed up.
Team and Arrest:- Considering the seriousness and urgency of the situation, a
case FIR was registered and a team of CyPAD was immediately formed under the
supervision of Aditya Gautam, ACP/CyPAD consisting of SI Parbhat, ASI Harjeet,
HC Jitender, Ct Amit and Ct Parnay for arresting the accused. Technical analysis
was done and the location of the accused was identified. Since the time he had
started trying to extort money from the victim girl’s father, the accused was
constantly changing his location. The team laid a trap and as soon as the accused
reached Kollam, Kerala, a raid was conducted and he was arrested. Two mobile
phones, a laptop, and other devices have been recovered from his
possession/instance.
INTERROGATION
Accused Akhil Ajayan Aged 26 years, is an English
Literature Graduate from Kollam, Kerala. His father works as a tailor and mother
is a home-maker. He started working as a petrol pump operator since he was 18
years old to fulfill his desire for fancy gadgets and a lavish lifestyle and soon
moved up the hierarchy to become the Manager. During his tenure as a Manager,
he used a scheme of a Public Sector Oil Company to reward loyal customers, HP
DriveTrack, to his own advantage. He would collect cash from customers and use
the DriveTrack card of his friends and family members to make payment and get a
5 percent cash back. Using this modus operandi, he ended up earning up to Rs 1.5
lacs extra per month as DriveTrack cash back, thus illegaly pocketing the
incentives meant for loyal customers.
In due course, he started using Social Media to befriend women like the
complainant’s daughter. Once he had befriended her, he gathered all the
information about her relatives and family members from Facebook and then tried
to use the information to extort the complainant by creating morphed pictures and
videos of his daughter. The accused has a lavish lifestyle and loves to own the
latest mobile phones and gadgets. On further interrogation, he disclosed that he had
taken a loan to buy IPHONE Xs Max for around Rs. 1.25 lakhs and didn’t have the
money to repay it.
The accused is also extremely fond of travelling and needed a lot of money
for the same. From the initial examination of his device and interrogation, it has
come out that he has befriended other innocent girls, including a Brazilian national.
He had travelled to Turkey earlier this year to meet the Brazilian woman and had
taken 6000 USD from her. The accused Akhil Ajayan informed during
interrogation that with the help of the extorted Rs. 8 Lakh, he had planned to
escape and settle in Brazil. The accused is being further interrogated and
investigation of the case is under progress.
(ANYESH ROY)
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
CYBER CRIME UNIT (CyPAD), SPECIAL CELL,
DWARKA, DELHI
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